Finally getting my truck back together and installed my lowering springs and blocks this weekend. Might end up reorganizing the leaf springs but I kinda like the rake.. test fit my wheels before I get tires. Gonna go with 195/50x15. Wheels are no name aluminum 15x7, et-8

 

The height up front looks good, the rear needs more drop. Especially with the tire size you're looking at.

Looking forward to how its all going to look

 

That's what I was thinking too. I'll just wait and see once I get the tires mounted. I didn't have an angle grinder to cut the bolt or brackets on the springs so that's why I didn't do it at the time.

 

Is the bolt bad enough that it needed to be cut?

 

I saw somewhere the through bolt for the leaf springs is too long to fit in the groove on the lower shock plate that goes on the bottom of the springs once you take out the middle leaf and it needs to be trimmed. I can't confirm since I haven't tried it though.

 

I can confirm that, i just drilled a hole on my shock plates rather than cut the bolt

 

Old Ford 14” steelies

 

1998 Mercury Grand Marquis Wheels.
16x7 / 5x4.5 bolt pattern. Wrapped in P205/55R16

 

Nice. Looks perfect. I'm planning on 16s for my 1988. How big are the blocks?

 

3" blocks

 

Thanks!

 

Pacer 320C Wheels
15x7 offeset -6

Tires
165/60R15

 

^Sweet lookin truck.

Here are mine, Superior Superstar IIIs from the ‘70s, 15x8.5, 4”backspace

 

Good O'l OEMs with the T-Caps or whatever they're called
Not sure if this will upload properly

 

Nope, try cropping your picture down.

 

Yep probably right, 1080p photo. Hopefully this one should work!

 

nope. What I do is I text the image to myself and that resizes it, then I save it and upload it.

 

Love this look, what is the offset? 0?

 

Probably, yes. Mine are 8.5” with around 4” offset (don’t know the exact specs but would be 4.25” max) but my truck is a different gen, stick out a bit at the rear, more at the front but I intend to find 4wd fenders to achieve equal fitment all around

Edit: After another look it appears he posted the backspace as -16mm, this is very similar to the offset but uses the centerline of the wheel for reference as opposed to the wheel flange. When buying wheels they will usually ask you for this measurement, as opposed to offset as it’s not commonly used anymore. But offset should be 4.25” on his if my math is right.