Posted by Clint Dixon [172.68.59.174] on Friday, November 18, 2016 at 10:12:45 :
In Reply to: Follow Up: Steering Column Interference posted by Greg Coffin [172.68.35.10] on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 18:16:55 :
About 30 or so years ago I built side boards and a headboard for my '47 WDX. I cut a "window" perfectly centered in the headboard and when I installed the boards in the stake pockets, the window in the headboard would not align properly with the rear window in the cab. I also noticed that the filler panels between the cab and pickup box fit much closer to the cab on one side verses the other. The difference is so extreme that I can remove the filler panel on one side but not the other without removing the whole pickup box. I thought this was a problem with the pickup box but when I went to move the box and align it to the cab, I found that the amount of available adjustment was very limited. I then tried to move the cab but could not do so as it was properly aligned with the steering column, transmission tower, winch lever, and transfer case controls.
Come to find out, the cab is not perfectly centered on the frame. I also attribute this misalignment as the reason I can never get the hood gaps exactly equal on both sides of the truck. I have verified that this is also the case with my '51 B3PW which is a very early model B3 with the early cab. The '47 is about 1-inch out of alignment and the '51 may be even slightly more so.
I don't know if this is a coincidence unique to my trucks, if it is unique to early cabs, or if all WDX-WM300 Power-Wagons were designed this way. Or maybe the frames and/or cab mounts on the frames are slightly different between the civilian and military Dodges and this creates your problem and my alignment issues are not related to yours.
Junior
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