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Do the axle shaft u-joints while you have it apart. They get stiff and can cause hard steering effort among other things.

The conical washers on the steering arm are a pain. Holding a ball peen hammer right at a washer and then using the biggest hammer you have to hit the other hammer sometimes works. So does hitting the stud itself (after you put the nut back on to not mushroom or peen the stud of course.) The...

I forgot to address the dog walking. How do you know? If someone told you they saw it doing that. Have that same person get behind the other side of the vehicle and watch how it “dog walks” that way too. The rear axle is not as wide as the front. It will always look like it is going sideways by...

TM 9-2320-289-34 Section 6-12 page 6-78 is where the M1009 ball joints are discussed. Just use a ball joint puller on each of them. The uppers have an adjustment sleeve. I don’t remember a flange on the ball joints.