I'll upload a few pictures in a bit.
You have a good old school setup. Swap those shocks out for bilstien 5100s (budget minded) and the rear i dont know what you have but if they are stock springs then ditch those for chevy 64 springs and build your own packs and get chevy lowering shackles and move the hangers. Then shocks will be the limiting factor in travel. With my 16" resi's I should be getting about 17" usable travel.
I'd think about putting limit straps on the front end too because you're just yanking the shocks apart when airborn. Also what does it have for bumpstops? you can go to the junkyard and find some good stock bumpstops off any SUV and put those on. Make sure you leave plenty room for hte rubber to fully compress before the shock is at full bump. Is that a glass hood or a metal hood with pins?
I am using a set of 1 ton f350 I-beams, bent and plated. If you ever upgrade the front end go to 1 ton beams, don't try using f100 or even f250 stuff. The f250 beams that I bent/plated (at the bend) at first got bent like crazy first race.
It gets 12" front travel, but not anymore. I am tearing hte truck down as we speak. Cuttting off my old shock mounting, the coil bucket, i-beam pivots. I am going to build an engine cage that ties into the cab cage at 4 points out of 2" DOM, which will support 2.5 14" coilovers that will give me about 17" usable travel up front. Also swapping on a set of Autofab beam mounts that widen the track width 2", and it's a must to build extended radius arms to get that amount of travel.
I run 35's. They fit great, but my truck isn't really stock either. The front fenders are autofab fiberglass fenders, and the rear I cut out the wheel well about 2" but you can't really tell because I just followed the original line and it came out pretty good. I'm cutting out the bed and hanging the bedsides this winter though. You can make 35's fit on your truck. Run a 7" rim (also acts as a beadlock that way), trim the fender wells a little bigger front and rear and you shouldnt have any problems. I forgot yours is a flareside so I'm not 100% sure on the rear. Should be fine with trimming.
Dith the bench seat as soon as you can. I remember goofing off in my truck when it still had the stock bench and it wasn't too fun
Pulled the bench out, fab'd up bucket seat mounting, got a hold of some nice racing seats and 5 point harnesses and it is 100x better than bouncing in a bench seat. don't run harnesses without a cage though.
