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Are you jouncing the front suspension and rolling forward and back a little after adjusting?

I totally just had a dumb moment. LOL I never thought about lowering blocks. LOL. And the silly part is is I've used them to raise and lower trucks in the past. LOL. Thank you very very much for the reminder. LOL

Awsome! Thank you very much. We have it mocked up now with the aftermarket brackets that came with the car, but would like to try to lower it another inch or so. I think we might have room to drill another hole 1" further up and drop the car a little more.

As the title states, we are looking for a length measurement on a factory rear leafspring shackle. Center of hole to center of hole on the two side straps that connect the leafspring bushings to the mountain. thanks, Eric

Just did this today. 63 valiant. 28" fit with no spacing but looked goofy. To center the wheel in the opening required 3/4" spacers. Made them out of double stacked 3/8" plate steel. Home made.

We're not planning on running the front end this low. This is an exercise in stance. It will have to go higher to align properly anyways. It was more the case of me remembering "low" as being lower. Lol

We jounced it pretty hard. Best we can do right now as the cars not driveable. But the lower control arm is 1/4" from the bumpstops regardless.

That's kinda what we're thinking. Optical illusion

I remember my 63 going much lower than this? But it has been 25 years. Lol. Tires are 195/70/14, with 318/727 combo in the car. Maybe it's an optical illusion? Maybe it's the roller skates it's on? Maybe I'm a blind idiot. Lol.

I'll even wear parachute pants when I cave the fuel tank in. Lol

But we only really need to move it back 1/4"-1/2", so we might be ok. Will have to measure.

That's a good point. I haven't had the fuel tank installed since we did the 8.8 swap. Who knows what the clerance will be to that thing. Thank Pishta.

I like that idea even better. Much less destruction

Ok. I'm following you now. What did you do to the frame to gain access to the spring eye nut/bolt. I was thinking of drilling a hole in the frame big enough to slide the bolt through and sleeving it to add strength.

And why do you need to modify the bottom plate to install the u bolts? Thanks again. Eric

I guess I don't understand where that mount gets the extra length from. It looks like the factory shackle? What is it off of? I'm assuming the spring eye hole is further back? Thanks. Eric

That's my go to plan. Using the Dr Diff kit. Just seeing what other ideas were out there before we get to that point. Below is a picture of the 8.8 axle mocked up in the car. It dosent have to move back near as far as I was thinking in my head initially.

Thank you. Any pics of the doubler plates? How exactly did you jog the rear shackles over. Thanks. Eric

It actually works out good for the driveshaft. We need to shorten it about an inch for the new axle we're putting under the car.

We thought about putting the springs under the frame, but that isn't really nescessary since we're not moving the wheel tubs, and it pretty much destroys any chance of tail pipes with factory tank. I would like to try moving the front spring mounts against the frame though. I think that might...

Yeah. Looking at pictures of the car I guess I overshot the amount we would need. Lol. 1/2"-3/4" is probably a better ball park. I think a spacer and longer bolts would get the job done.

And. In addition. I'm wondering if anybody has ever "made" their own off set front hangers? It almost looks like we could drill and sleeve a hole through the frame rail in order to slide the bolt through the spring, and slam the front spring hanger against the frame and redrill the 4 mounting...

On our 1963 valiant project, we are planing on getting the offset spring hangers to get some extra room on the inside of the tire. I can't find anybody that makes offset spring hangers to move the axle back 1 1/2 inches. Is this something we're going to have to fabricate? Because that will...

we are currently restoring the front end of Jason's 63 valiant. We for the most part have the suspension and steering colors and textures the way we want them. Our problem, or question rather is the paint "texture" on the wheelwell, or apron itself. As the pictures show, we have the wheel...