How about painting yourself black and forgetting the bag? 8-/
Didn't know that, I always thought the bright white was "chevy white". Ever see a white ford with the bright white spoked wheels on it? I did before I boughi my 16x7 wheels, I went with chrome. ;)
I haven't been able to get ahold of my friend in Douglas, might end up painting mine myself too. I wonder if Imron is cheaper in Mexico? ;) DuPont R12 was $8 a can a year or so ago.
I hope you didn't get carried away with that and hope that was where all your play was both. Mine was in the sector shaft bearings (or lack there of!) and had my orignal steering gear housing line-bored and bearings installed. The sector shaft play was my last bit of play mine had, I eleminated it from everything else, even the steering column.
I betchu! :) I set my own toe-in as close to straight as I can get it but less than straight (1/32"?). It handles best that way. I use a couple 4"x8"x16" solid cement blocks leaned over to hold a couple straight 4 foot pieces of 1+1/2" thin-wall square tubing against the tires... and a tape measure.
It may be totally wrong! But I didn't settle for crummy handling because the tape measure said it's right, I try different adjustments and "box in" what's best, just found I can trust it after all these years doing air-cooled VWs (front -and- back).
Mine are stock stainless steel "low mount, swing lok" and whistle at high speed if they are set a certain way. I couldn't have the "western style" since i wanted to go through brush and up in the mountains etc. Their swinging out of the way and re-adjusting with the positive locking positon features sure have been nice over the years! :)
The bolts and acorn-nuts weren't stainless steel tho. :) I replaced them years ago with some from Ace Hardware after grinding off the words etc and refinishing the bolts' tops installed new nylon washers too... all of it was cheap and easy.
I really liked ramva (r.a.makers.volkswagen.aircooled) because of the sharing and learning of other's ideas they came up with for fixing and improving their cars. I was hoping for something like it that was for old ford pickups. Like I spent ~8 hours figuring out how to keep my tailgate braces from rattling in an "elegant and straight forward way" and then finally spent about 15 minutes actually installing my idea. It's really cool, so why should someone else have to re-nvent it? And the same... why can't I learn what they worked out, maybe stuff I didn't even notice was "wrong" before. :) The old VW were so much alike and old too that I guess it's only for them?
The little ranger owners kinda have that here, I'm jealous. :/
Alvin in AZ