So just to give a summary of what I did on my week off and how the rebuild is going:
I started on the passenger side. I removed the brake, spindle, and steering knuckle.
I separated the hub from the rotor, cleaned the hub, installed new bearing races in it, painted it, and installed it onto a new rotor with new wheel studs (The wheel studs are what hold the rotor and hub together),
I installed a new spindle bearing and seal on the spindle, and painted the flange.
I cleaned and painted the steering knuckle, installed new upper and lower ball joints, installed a new ABS sensor, and a new brake dust shield.
I cleaned and painted the axle shaft and installed a new u-joint.
I removed the axle beam with radius arm and coil spring still attached, cleaned it and painted it, installed a new axle pivot bushing.
I removed the old coil spring bucket from the frame, cleaned and painted that section of the frame. While I had the coil bucket out, I decided to replace the negative battery cable because it was in bad shape and I was going to replace it eventually anyway. I had really good access to where it bolts to the engine block without the spring bucket in the way, so I took the opportunity to replace it now. I still need to eventually replace the positive cable.
Then I installed a new coil bucket.
I reinstalled the axle beam with new radius arm bushings. I also installed my new shocks, and reinstalled the steering knuckle. The next step for the passenger side is to reinstall the axle shaft, which I can't do until I finish the driver's side, so I moved on to the driver's side.
I'm doing the exact same thing to the driver's side as the passenger side, so I'm not going to type out every step I'm doing/have done. Right now the driver's axle beam is still out of the truck and the differential is separated from the beam. I took the stub shaft out of the diff and changed the center u-joint.
While I had the driver's coil bucket out, I had really easy access to the brake lines right where they come out of the ABS unit. They were in pretty bad shape so I replaced the brake lines with more nickel-copper alloy lines. Now the only original brake lines on the truck are the two lines that go from the master cylinder to the ABS unit. All the rest of the brake lines are new.
I'm picking up new axle shaft seals tonight. I will install them, put the stub shaft back in, and re-seal the diff to the axle beam. Then I can reinstall the driver's axle beam.
That's where I'm at now. I have lots of pics to upload, but can't do it while I'm at work, so I have to wait till later. Stay tuned!