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anybody have an idea on what kind of upper shock mounts that i can fabricate or buy to put tube shocks on the front of my 46 1/2 ton??

Hoozat, How is your porject going? Moving faster than my 47 I hope. I just got done with my disk brake upgrade and changing my lever shocks to tube type. I have a parts 50 3/4 ton so I just took the 50's shock mounts (lower and upper) and installed them on my 47. The 50 has a diffrent lower axle plate than my 47. It sets at an angle so the bottom of the shock fits. The 47 has a flat lower axle plate for the lever shock rod to fit (no angle). The 50's tubes set at about 60 degrees using my angle finder so that is what I mounted them on the 47. I clamped the mounts in place and drilled three holes and used grade 5 5/16 bolts. The mounts have 4 holes but were only using three on the truck they came on. Not sure what I will use for shocks yet. I have taken a few leaves out of the springs so the front will be a a few inches lower. Gas shocks may be a good idea. But I have no idea as to what ones to get. Not sure if you have salvage yards around you but it my be worth your time to take a look. I do have the front fenders off my 50 so it was easy to get the mounts.

I have used the 1950-54 truck mounts also.
They are available in repo.

My truck is up and running, I put about 800 miles on it in the last 3 weeks, runs like a top on the interstate i cruise at 65 mph with no problem, runs excellent......did a pretty good job of building it..(patting myself on the back)...lol. still original 216 with the t-5 and the s-10 rear, im building a 235 in the garage for it for later on down the road,

Nice to here!

I love when Im on I-95 and I pass people and they look at me and say "what the hell was that???".....and lots of thumbs up too!!