As we continue to add weight to the back, the old rear springs keep flattening out. You can see the nose high stance in the first pic.
I spoke to a couple spring manufacturers and have plenty of options...except, we kinda need to have a realistic rear weight. That's not gonna happen until we get it closer to being done...still have a lot of weight to add with fuel tank, lift cylinder, and whatnot.
The short term solution for us was to add 3" lift blocks in back so we can continue building with a better idea of the angle of the dangle moving forward...rear driveline, new rear shocks (more on that in a couple days).
Instead of building new springs with overloads, we want to go with an air bag overload system. That way we can optimize spring design for vehicle weight and ride quality and not expected load capacity (i.e. crappy, stiff, ride)
So, that left a lot of frame brackets we didn't need anymore...held on by a couple dozen rivets.
Then that left a frame rail with a bunch of holes all over....so...