Just looking back a few pages and I am now realizing you did your SOA. Congratulations! Finally joining the boys with at the small penis club. lol.
I do agree that the rear axle has to move back. I just re-drilled the spring perches and u-bolt plates and used a 4 speed drive shaft thats 3-4 inches longer that accounts for the SOA and stretch. Although you have a doubler so that would non applicable to you. Just another thing is that your front springs are going to get shhit kicked. I would recommend adding an extra main and medium spring. Do you have a rear track bar? One rock hop and the rear springs will be pooched. Trust me, I have ruined so many leafs.
Your work is uber awesome. Over the top really. Do you have a job? Or do you just work on your cruiser all day?
Cheers! Julian.
Yup. Took the truck apart and did the motor swap and SOA at the same time. Well, I purposely mounted the motor a bit low so it would force me to do the SOA

my old SUA suspension was so clapped out I had to do something.
I moved the front axle forwards about 3-4" and the rear axle backwards about 1" I think. I have all Ruffstuff hardware so it's drilled in multiple positions.
My spring setup is rear 60 springs up front, and 63" Chevy 3/4-ton springs in the rear. These are some seriously strong rear springs and I don't think I will need a rear trac bar. I am concerned about the front though, but mostly because the springs I used are worn out and I really used them only for getting the locations. I am shopping for a set of good or new stock-height 60/62 rear springs. I should have probably used a more available spring like XJ rear leafs but I liked that the 60 sings have offset pins to put the axle forwards without loosing approach angle, and keep the mil-wrap at the fixed point (I did a shackle reversal as well).
Thanks for the compliments. As for the job, building this Cruiser this summer has pretty much been a full-time job with overtime.
The short answer is that I stopped working earlier this year and I just started back at school (pursuing an engineering degree. Again.)
Over the past few years I've worked as a tech in a shop building Land Rover Defenders, engine swaps, restorations, etc, I worked on about a 1/2-dozen LS conversions there. I've also had a bunch of welding, machining, and fabrication jobs. Most recently I was a welder on a production line. Which sucked but was good money and bought me this summer's Cruiser modifications
