Good info thank you sir. I am going to need to look at the steering box because it is VERY loose. The brake and clutch pedals have no pressure but that should be pretty straight forward to repair.

The second owner that I bought it from picked this truck up from the ODOT sale in Portland in 1968. It was originally a plow truck with a dump box. When the boys go it back to Klamath Co. they installed a backhoe on the back to clean out the ditch. Talk about a hard life!

The good news is that the backhoe is on a 1972 W600 in the same barn! Hopefully the owner was serious when he said we would have first dibs.

Sorry for getting on a bit of a ramble there. Is there any source for medium sized truck parts like this? I assume the differentials and t-case would be used in other applications.

Thank you again!