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Don't know if this is the same thing you're talking about, but when I first got my truck someone had started doing something like that. They had put a new spring shackle mount waaay back on the frame. the springs were 3-4 inches longer than original. All the leaves had been removed except the main leaf.
I had a great time running from side to side on the rear bumper pretending I was on a see-saw. Didn't seem safe to me. Of course there were no shocks on it either.
I did see a unique way of lowering the rear about 3 inches using the original torquetube rear axle on a '52. Someone simply unbolted the axle from the springs and put a 3" spacer block between springs and axle. It APPEARED to work fine, and looked a lot more roadworthy than the monoleaf setup. Of course it's hard to say for sure because neither of these trucks were running. So all of my observations are based upon the static display ;-)
Both attempts may put unecessary stress on the driveline.
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