Step 1 - New Suspension

1/1/2013:  Finally I get to add some of my parts rather than remove them.  I've spent seven years amassing parts in anticipation of this day!  For two years, I've been cleaning, stripping, grinding rust and repainting old parts.  The body was sent out for the professional treatment and the engine is in the queue for a rebuild (though it was running okay with occasional puffs of the blue stuff).  The day had come to start the build... finally!

I had purchased a 4" lift from Specter Off-Road which had been waiting patiently for this day for over a year.  The springs were shipped "naked" and the UPS crew did there best to make them look like they had fallen off the truck and tumbled into a canyon in the Rockies on their way out.  So, it took considerable effort to make them look new again (shame on you SOR!  Ever think a customer might want their new parts looking... umm NEW?)

Today, I jacked up the chassis dropped the front suspension.

Yes, that's the Dukes of Hazzard and yes, those are Daisy's dukes!