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It appears to me that the pivot bracket is missing or broken off. The welded bracket on your floor pan tunnel was made to replace the missing pivot.
Frank
You can remove the bearing retainer which holds the seal without disturbing anything else. With the front driveshaft removed and a new seal installed it may get you by, but this would be a bandaid fix, it appears you have more going on than just the seal. When replacing the retainer the gasket...
The PWA article is the original disc conversion. It had the caliper ears welded to the knuckle. This was later changed to having the ears mounted on a separate plate that bolted to the 5 holes as the backing plate did. The hub sketch reflects this change (2.5 dimension). The rotor mounting...
Ray posted yesterday on the Dodge Powerwagon Forum that he has disc brake conversions available. http://www.dodgepowerwagon.com/wwwboard/messages/5050166.html
Frank
Mine had yellow paint under all the other coats. The yellow was over the original blue paint. Mine is an ex Air Force truck, and I was advised that the AF painted the flight line trucks yellow.
Frank
I believe that Vintage Power Wagons is now the distributor of ARB PW lockers, http://www.vintagepowerwagons.com/blog.html?view=default&layout=metadata
Frank
This is another thought. How about the gasket between the carb body and the base. The last carb I rebuilt for an M601 which is similar to the M37 carb, had several intermediate gaskets in the rebuild kit. What I noticed was the large holes in the gasket that left little room for sealing.
Frank