Sorry if I have stretched anyone's patience.

Yes, I know it has torsion bars on the front. I obviously miss spoke somewhere. They have been replaced with stock spec.

The rear leafs were engineered to give some extra lift, IE they were ordered as such.

I grabbed the rear of the car and shook it hard as I could side to side, the only movement was the side wall flex of the tires. Very stiff side to side.

Put it on the lift, and prioritized the replacement of the fuel sending unit. Got that knocked out, but still no guage function. Bummer. The old one was definitely bad, so more work needed on that.

As for the play in the steering, I think I have that nailed down, and it took all of about five seconds.

I grabbed the column just above the coupler, and rocked it back and forth. It has about an eighth of a turn of slop, but the coupler seems tight. What I saw was the input shaft of the steering box moving in and out about a quarter inch, with no movement of the pittman arm. The steering box was replaced, but I don't know if it was new or rebuilt.