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Solid Axle Swap
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Cool. Looks like you need the brake caliper brackets and stuff for the rear too, fortunately those are available new with the calipers and are not super expensive.
Artec makes truss kits for those Super Duty axles. I would highly recommend that regardless of what you do for springs... it makes the axle a LOT easier to work with as far as mounting locations for shocks/springs/links/coilovers etc. Otherwise you are probably welding something to cast iron on the driver's side. That is the ONE really big problem with using SD front axles...that little stupid stub of tube. Back in the day we put SD axles in my buddy's Dodge and it was really a cluster fudge trying to find places to attach his 4 link brackets and ORI shocks - nobody was making truss kits at the time which would have made it a LOT easier.
Artec makes truss kits for those Super Duty axles. I would highly recommend that regardless of what you do for springs... it makes the axle a LOT easier to work with as far as mounting locations for shocks/springs/links/coilovers etc. Otherwise you are probably welding something to cast iron on the driver's side. That is the ONE really big problem with using SD front axles...that little stupid stub of tube. Back in the day we put SD axles in my buddy's Dodge and it was really a cluster fudge trying to find places to attach his 4 link brackets and ORI shocks - nobody was making truss kits at the time which would have made it a LOT easier.