So I then proceeded to get the link mounts on the axle tacked on (except panhard)
Panhard was a bit trickier. Because of differing lengths between drag link and panhard, it's not actually as simple as just making them parallel. That might be basically right if they were flat, but if they're not flat (even like 10-20 degrees of static misalignment) you need to look at their swept displacement curves in order to eliminate bump steer. So, I started on cardboard but eventually wrote a program and then just decided it would be easy to do it all in Excel (for visualization) so that's what I did. As you can see on my rudimentary method, though, the "parallel" approach I initially started with was actually substantially incorrect (needed to move it up 1.75"):
OK, but that sucks because it's interfering with the pumpkin. The stock cruiser track bar is all bendy so I decided to follow suit. Too much bend but I don't have a tube bender, I only have a borrowed "tube pincher" from harbor freight that received a pretty hot supper during this process.
I loved my pitbulls but they were really always in the way. They also liked to try to roll out of the garage when I wasn't looking. Each tire is over 100 lbs - like 118 or something (according to Pitbull, anyway) so once they got moving, they would destroy things (like my safety goggles, etc)
Starting to check articulation. I guess the truss is on now - which I also had to "customize" to fit my slightly-different-than-a-stock-front-dana-60 axle. Thinking I should have gone part-tiem and just let the driveshaft vibrate a little. But, well, you soldier on.