Oh I got out there alright. Thermals, flannel, Carhart and some coveralls got me through the day! I warmed my lil work space with a portable heater and some halogen lights....shoooot it got up to 38 degrees!
I was able to get the sub rails wire wheeled and the CCP mini sub frame kit installed.

Now I have some questions....the bj on the lower arm is tapered like I would expect it to be, thing is it has this spacer and washer.

So what I'm thinking is it goes together as normal and the spacer and washer sit under the castle nut on top of the spindle....is that correct? So if that's the way THAT goes, what's the deal here?

It looks like it's tapered as well but has a tapered spacer and just a bit of a shoulder to sit in the center link. Would it really be connected to a rack with a heim?

Not sure what's going on with all the steering yet, it's all 6cyl from steering box to center link.
I'll be ordering my AOD crossmember this week as well as picking up some miscellaneous hardware for the brakes. The "while I'm there" is creeping in on me and now I'm thinking about steering boxes....can't find too many options for manual boxes, we'll see what happens.
Good times!
Greg, that thing with the guy and the stuff I had emailed you about, RESOLVED!