Today I went by AGAIN to look at the chassis some and just stood there for 15 minutes stairing at the truck. I am going to just throw in a dropped axle. I priced up what I wan't to do with the front end to drop it later when it's road worth and I can put a IFS cheaper than the dropped axle because later I would like disk brakes, lowered, better shocks, etc and to lower it with a axle it costs as much. But... I like the straight axles and keeping it old school, heh.
Even if you guy's are not into straight axles, dropped axles or whatever else check this site out.
http://www.btc-bci.com/%7Ebillben/dropaxle.htm I like what he says at the end there about the IFS thing.