two years ago you asked about swapping in a 14 bolt axle. I assume you finished the swap. The axle I have came from an 1980 cucv ambulance and the drums are so deep they wont clear the springs, if I leave the spring mounts alone.

I was going to cut the stock spring mounts off and box in the frame around the mount locations and fabricate new spring mounts to fit the 14 bolt. The new spring mounts would be located directly under the frame and would lift the rear about 6" more. Which could be ok, since I am doing spring over in the front.

Last night I scratched my head and couldn't decide just how to approach it. So I thought I would see if someone was able to fit a similar axle under stock spring widths. Those stock drums are deep and eat up axle length!!