ok so heres an update its been for ever but I have had trucks in and out of the shop and working more than I was so havn't gotten much done untill these last weekend.

I started on moving the ifs box forwards and ran into a million problems because the axle is so far forwards but heres some pictures of what I did to make it
 work.

heres how it was before.





and the work


I just used the plate that was there cut it off on top and used the ifs box mounts to plate over so the front of the frame is super beefy, you can see where I plated in front of the plate so its still strong.

I had to mount the box as flat as posible to clear the tie rod because the drag link is so far forwards these springs are like 29" from centerpin to the center of the front bolt on the hanger and rears or marlin springs are about 24..


so here is the box mount plated and the bottom is all capped.




and since i mounted it so flat and low the steering shaft jpoint hit the frame so i had to  notch it I haven't capped it yet but heres a picture ill post some with the shaft it tomorrow.


and thats without it being cleaned up im going to round the corners a but and plate it.