First, welcome to CHR! Sorry I missed the post initially, but welcome. That's a really cool old T-bucket, the lines are great and it sits "right". I agree with MT1, I'd not start tearing into it for a re-work, but instead would drive it - apart from one thing. I've never liked or been able to abide those pure vertical, through the floor steering columns. Yeah, I know it's one of those "Dan Woods" features, but before I put much "stick time" in that one I would be looking at how to re-work that column, and like Mike says get the pitman arm up away from potholes, speedbumps or driveway swales. Maybe something like the SteerClear due to space constraints?? I recall that Master Builder Ken Thurm, who left the forum quite some time back, was using his own version of a SteerClear on a new one he was doing - Steer Clear Steering System - Street Rodder Magazine