Good deal. I thought something was wrong, but it makes sense now. I just hate that the steering wheel won't maintain the same position. Oh well.
For the lynch pins, I had the stainless bolts and nylon nuts, so that was easy to change. I don't ever plan to change the height of the deck and cut grass yesterday and it looked pretty good, height-wise.
As for the light switches, I have two cut-outs on the dash. My plan is to use a single lighted switch in one of the cut-outs for two separate lights to turn both on/off. For the other cut-out, I plan to put a DPDT momentary (on)-Off-(on) lighted switch that I'll wire up to only light up when the other switch is on. Then, if I press it in one direction, it will change the pattern of one of the lights. Pressing the other direction will change the pattern of the other light. When the main switch is off, both switches' illumination will be off. I'll make a video of the operation when I get everything installed.