Moving springs back 1 "

I suppose they maybe do make the hole 1 " back, I never really shopped around that hard. Basically it sounds like I will not be weakening anything by doing this, if it worked out I could even go as far as welding a spacer plate to the frame for piece of mind. The worst thing about it is I don't want to have 2 holes drilled out of my frame beside each other to accept the outside welded nut on the bracket it it didn't work out.