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1948 Jeep Willys Pickup Truck - Project Murderous Overkill Part V

Frame And Suspension
By Christian Hazel
Photography by Christian Hazel
48 Willys
1948 Jeep Willys Pickup Suspension Components
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1948 Jeep Willys Pickup Suspension Components
When fabricating your own suspension, you owe it to yourself to check out M.O.R.E.'s product line. We ordered the company's new stubby front spring perches for use with 2.5-inch springs, as well as the company's standard spring perches. We also ordered two pairs of M.O.R.E.'s incredibly beefy boomerang shackles and its chromoly shackle hangers.
1948 Jeep Willys Pickup Shackle Hangers
We're anticipating big power... 
   
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1948 Jeep Willys Pickup Shackle Hangers
We're anticipating big power and don't want a ton of lift, so we decided on a spring-under suspension for Overkill. To allow the 40-inch Goodyears to clear the cab at full stuff, we moved the axle forward a good 8 inches from stock. We began the suspension build by spacing the shackle hangers apart 32 inches on center to match our spring-perch width and tacked them to the frame using the stock spring hangers to ensure they were square to the chassis.
1948 Jeep Willys Pickup Gusset
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1948 Jeep Willys Pickup Gusset
Since our spring-perch width required the shackle hangers to extend half of their width past the frame, we cut gussets out of 131/44-inch, 0.120-wall DOM tubing. The trick gussets look way better than boxing the whole hanger to the frame and give more than enough support.

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