[SkinnyG]

I drove the '61 into the shop today to have a good look-see at the bottom; help formulate my game plan. It all looks pretty typical.









It -looks- like it could lay rocker easily, as the frame rails are a lot shorter on these X-Frame trucks. Pancake the front crossmember, sure. Do something about the bottom of the X, maybe. Will the Trailing Arms tuck in high enough at the back of the frame??

I picked up a set of 88-98 2" spindles as well as a Ford 9" axle, plus some 18" Grand Cherokee wheels (5x5 pattern). I need to figure out how I want to deal with all that. The axle swap is easy. Keeping the torsion bars is nice and convenient and affordable, but a challenge.









Something in the front of the truck kept creaking as it sat on the lift. That wasn't scary at all </sarcasm>.