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Here I was with ahlf a truck on stands in my garage, and just an idea to start with. I wanted a simple cheap, and reliable toy I could load up in and run down to the local playgroung aka offroad area. I was thinking some 33s and all the saftey stuff to help me feel more confortable bouncing around the trails, with the kids in the truck. I picked up some 2x4x 3/16, and 2x3x3/16 wall tube to rebuild my frame. I inboarded some rear 63 chevy springs, while I was rebuilding the rear section of frame. I tapered my new framerails in just enough that my springs mount inside the rails at the hanger, and the shackles sit just under the corner of the frame rails in the rear. I finished off the rear suspension with some procomp 3" lift cherokee shocks a friend had lying around that he never used on his jeep.
Then it was on to the front. I used my origonal rear springs in the front with the lift shackles I mentioned earlier, and a custom drop spring hanger, with about 1 1/4 inch of drop and mounted it 1" forward from stock. With the rear springs I ended up with my front axle about 2 1/2 to 3" forward from the stock location. I finished off the front with some 85 f250 shock mounts, and some rancho 9012 shocks.
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