Yea cause you want to have your drag link as straight as possible. Even with mine facing forward the axle steering arm is probably 6 inches in front of the pitman arm no harm in leaving it till you get your knuckle and steering arm all set up to see where you are at

 

got my rear under the truck, have the u bolts loosely in place. gotta adjust the leaf springs slightly to line up center bolt. tomorrow is another day, no work for me. should have front rear in, and noticed front sits 2 inches higher than the rear, so im planning on drilling new holes higher up on the front shackles. maybe remove a leaf. not sure yet.
pics tomorrow

 

and i have one of my friends searching for a 4 speed with a 205 transfer case, we'll see how that one comes along.

 

Had the same issue. I had a 5 leaf pack up front. I took out two bottom ones. Dropped it down 1 3/4 inches

 

rear is in, going to fill torch bottle so i can hack off excess parts

 

okay so i am waiting on money to come in so ican order a cast knuckle. i had my friends super duty here yesterday, it sits on 40s.. i took one of his tires off and rolled it next to mine, lets just say i can make full turns with 44s and no fender rubbing. looks like im searching for 44 boggers now, haha.

 

Any pics of the work being done?

 

didnt see anything at the junkyard, hardly any fullsizes i was looking for a dash pad out of one a radiator for a 2.8.... seems all those trucks fell off the face of the earth too.

 

still havent ordered that knuckle, kinda switched vehicles to work on.. i put my old 31s on my sisteers jeep cherokee, looks pretty sweet. gonna powdercoat her rims later today (black for the black bottom red top scheme)
help my friend out with that super duty again.
heres a pic i took
its a 39.5 and i still needed to raise the whole rear 6 inches to line up the rim.. im getting my friends 42s, swamper tsl's

 

Foty toos will be hell on your drivetrain in the woods. Dont get happy with the skinny or youll end up with 4 broke axles