Britbrat,
That is an excellent rundown of the different types of problems you can run into, not just in a conversion. Thank you for that input, that should go on a permanent spot for troubleshooting complaints with landing gear in general, and "squirrelly" landing problems.

Here is where my gear is located at now, the axle is about even with the leading edge:

This is a better shot of the pushrod for tailgear steering, and how far in I made the new hole for the pushrod, the old ones were out at the end :