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I'm a firm believer in 8 ply radials and power steering.

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Ok. I've been keeping a look out for you... I'll keep watching. To go with the press you will need a couple of short lengths of what I think you guys call girder steel.. it's cross section is like a capital I... That's a capital "eye", not an "L". It needs to be big stuff, like six inches tall and about four across the two side plates. That's to support the crank on the bed of the press. You also want a bit of angle iron about two inches by two inches. That doesn't need to be very long, about eight inches will be plenty. It's what you use to align the crank webs as you start pressing it together. You set the webs in the angle so they line up initially before you press the second web on. The books often say to use a special tool that's a bit of rod that goes through holes in the webs, but the angle does fine as long as you get it all sitting nice. You're also going to need those centers I was talking about.. Have you figured anything for that yet ? Before you press the old crank apart, take note how far the crank pin pokes through the webs. Mostly they are about flush with the web face but sometimes they poke out a little. It would be a good idea too, to make sure the new parts are identical to the old, in the length of the pin in particular. If the new pin's a bit longer or shorter then you'd allow for that when you press the new pin in. The rods sometimes seem a little different in dimensions or weight if they aren't genuine but that's ok.. As long as they are the same length anyway. .haha Being a little thicker or chunker is ok. I'll look for your posts.