not exactly the same picture but a decent before and after of the front spring over, looks about perfect, did quite well up in the mountains this weekend and only had 2WD.

At full lock it gets pretty close, about 3/8ths of an inch. Should work for this trick but If there is time Ill swap to a no-drop true flat pitman arm, which in itself isn't simple since they are indexed to work with a canted steering box and mine is straight ... awesome, with my luck the rod end won't fit either and Ill have spend an hour at the parts store.

The top of spring is level with the zerk fitting. Nice could limit my steering.

honestly nothing is easy. The draglink rod end that I got was too small so thankfully I could salvage the old one. Also note in this picture the angle of the draglink which isn't horrible but not ideal. So I look closer

axle to frame connection. I think this turned out great. of course no brake work isn't complete without fluid everywhere :(.

front brake line hopefully done. master connection, of course didn't have a tube on hand long enough so I had to splice in the coiled part. should work for temporary to permanent solution.

brake lines turned out good, need to finish the flex line going to the frame and bleed the system and its "ready"

drivers side, I plan on hanging the brakeline off the rear most bumpstop bolt.

passenger side view. still need to put on the draglink balljoint. and of course the new tie rod

one from the front.

rake isn't so bad, the more I look the better it is, angle-o-meter showed 8* up in the front.

thank you chad for coming down and doing all the welding, we also got the brake lines plumbed really nice and then ghetto primed it.

Got the second set of shackles done, that leaves finish welding, brake plumbing, paint and a driveshaft.

1 set of schackles done, 1 set to go and then some paint. Should be buff enough.

going to make some schackles for the front. Also measured up the bushings I got and they should work. going to hone out the front eyelets and keep em greased.

more measurements

Shocks @ ride height: 20.5
bumpstop 2 spring perch @ ride height: 4.75
brakeline @ ride height:14.5
Shocks @ full droop: 24
brake line @ ful droop:17

Got the ubolts cut down and threw the springs on and steering arm, starting to resemble what I took out, except the springs are in a different location

again not a ton of visual progress but passenger side is tacked as well as the lower shock mounts, took a lot of tip tap tappy toe to get darn near perfect.

not a lot of visual progress, passenger perch welded up, sure hope its in the right stop, and the axle cleaned of the shock mounts and ready for the perch.

more measurements

TRE shank size - 21 mm
drag link length - 29.25 inches
now just a question of money

measurements

~48" between balljoint centers
45" tie rod lenght assuming tie rod end does not have provisions for drag link attachment
taper sizes
.629" Large side
.553" small side
.803" thick

Not a lot of progress tonight, drivers side is tacked in and passenger side is fitting good. got the new shock tabs cleaned up slightly