I used that rust converter stuff on the rear axle, welded my perches then made them prettier with grinding. Gloss black paint and then mounted it. I may decide to use a 2" lift block just to get the front and rear a little closer.
My brother gave me some coils off of a B2 (Possibly 6" lift coils?) and it lifted my front even MORE than the coils I had before. On the plus side, they're WAY more flexy.
Still need to:
Plumb rear brakes
Set up parking brake cables (may need to fab a bracket)
Weld on shock tabs and brake line tabs
I ghetto connected the rear driveshaft. I used one of the 1 1/8"x 1 1/6" U joints so the stock shaft would mount to the rear 9. I may have been tired/drunk/poisoned when measuring. I say this because the 1 1/16" end, which fits the Ranger driveshaft, is a bit too long and I couldn't use the E clips. My caps were sticking out about 2mm on each end.
Since my apartment complex hates me already, and they would throw a fit if they saw a truck with no driveshaft connected, I VERY temporarily solved my issue. Tacked the caps like a boss.