I want to start off with, I don't know a lot about my truck and how to achieve the end result I am looking for. Hope to learn and get some ideas here. I have a 1947 4400 dually. It was a stakebed farm truck in another life that now gets put in the yard for Halloween and taken on beer runs to the general store.
I really have three goals at this time. 1st is to lower the truck, 2nd is to put a big block in it and 3rd is to keep the original chassis.
Spoke with Sid's Drop Axels and there is no hope for a drop axel to lower the front end. This pushes me towards removing the leaf springs front and rear and adding air bags and trailing arms if that works.
For the big block I am thinking of an older carbureted 454. Dont really care about the horse power as much as reliability and sound. Always loved that sound.
Curious if anyone has taken on either if these and wouldn't mind sharing any thoughts, concerns, lessons learned.
This would be done in stages over the next few years. Should I lower it 1st then motor or the other way around?
Are there any other lowering options out these for a 1.5 ton while keeping the original chassis? I have considered an axel flip but heard that's a no no.
Again, any thoughts, opinions or suggestions are very appreciated,
