[Mr. Toad]

If you can't get the proper pre-load using the shims that you removed (assuming you kept them segregated and re-installed them in the same locations from which they were removed), you may have to use the SST knuckle alignment tool. That'll get your knuckle centered and pre-loaded.

I would say that since you're re-installing the knuckles on the same axle housings they came off of you could probably achieve a similar result to the SST method by adding/removing shims equally on the top and bottom. However, from your other posts, it looks like CCOT took some liberties with the restoration of this truck; i.e. those might not be the same knuckles that Toyota put on that axle housing.

Re: The molybdenum disulphide grease question on the previous page: Molybdenum disulphide grease has some different properties than high-speed wheel bearing grease. Wheel bearing grease goes in the HUB, moly grease goes in the KNUCKLE (including the birf joint). That said, however, I doubt that it'd really hurt anything if you packed the birf and knuckle with wheel bearing grease instead of moly . . .