I suppose you could cut about 1/2" out of the center and weld it back together.
The Ford ones should be real cheap in a junkyard though.
Or swap springs from a 1.5 (or 2) ton, they're 2.5" wide already and fit the spring hangers and shackles. I actually want to do this but have not found a good set, so I'll use what I already have.
I haven't started looking for plain simple US made lug nuts yet. Euclid might make some.
The Ford saddles are just hard to find. I sent about 8 or 10 e-mails out to classic scrappers today and nobody that replied has them.
I didn't know about the big bolt springs mounting up where the others are. Hmmm. I'll keep that in mind but wider will be more in the way for me at the moment.
I don't think cutting and welding the new saddles would be too bad.
Gonna do some more measuring on my two 14 bolts. One has a deep offset in the backing plates and the other has almost none. I know there were lots of little variations. Although I don't really want to, I may end up swapping the 4.10's into the one with less offset, just to gain that little bit of clearance.
Larry W.
