[davepl]

I did the same thing. I tore mine down to every individual piece, from tie rod sleeves to bleeder valves, rebuilt everything. Powder coated, assembled, looks great.

As you may have noticed the front lug studs are 9/16 and if your truck is a 70 or earlier, which I'm going to guess it is, you'll have 1/2 inch. So that means (a) your wheels may or may not fit, and (b) you'll have different studs and nuts and potentially wheels front to back.

I wound up converting the whole truck to 9/16

You will also need new lines, or to try to make something work by bending the old ones. Also the reservoirs are reversed front to back if matters (look for a fairly detailed post I did on this).

You might need to buy some bigger sockets for those end nuts. You will also need some serious torque not only to get them off but also to put them on, and you need a torque wrench and a shop manual for the torque values (ideally, but I'm sure others have done without).