Is 1/2" leaf spring relocation worth the trouble?

Mojoe9955 said
Speaking on the sliders, I read a post here about them in conjunction with switching from the 74 plus to an earlier bumper which was a little confusing, but I've since figured it out.
You made the sliders or purchased them. I see some info about Calvert but the don't seem to have anything specific to Mopar A bodies. Car Tool seems to have them though. I'm not adverse to trying anything, so all
this is about ingenuity as well as having something to do. I haven't heard any comments about the half pipe offset shackleI pictured. It was made by a Chevy guy, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. That and a homemade front bracket would put me in business.

I made the 1/2" offset slider brackets myself, there's some info here and then more on the next page of my build thread

My "new" '74 Duster- or why I need a project like a hole in the head
The sliders I have on my Duster came from AFCO-
AFCO Racing 20236S AFCO Racing Leaf Spring Sliders | Summit Racing

They don't have a built in angle though, which ideally they should have or the brackets should have to put the slider track more inline with the motion of the spring. The Calvert spring sliders have this angle built in. In a perfect world you'd match the angle to the angle on the exact springs you have on your car, but really the generic angle on the Calverts would be better than nothing IMO. There's nothing "A-body" about the sliders, they work with any 2.5" wide leaf spring but you have to fabricate a way to mount them. Or just weld them direct to the chassis, but that might make things difficult to change things later. These are the Calvert sliders

SPRING SLIDERS for Calvert Springs (SL-300CR ) – Calvert Racing, Inc.

I don't really see a reason to fabricate the 1/2" rear shackles. If I was going to fabricate something I'd fabricate the bracket to mount the spring sliders, then you don't need shackles. The front spring hanger can also be fabricated, but personally with my time/money ratio if they'll be available in a month or less I would buy them, simply because I'd have them before I had the time to fabricate them myself. Plus the DoctorDiff front hangers are very nice, they'd definitely be prettier than anything I would do even if the functionality was the same.

US Cartool seems to have 1/2" offset shackles as well, but not the hangers. And they probably make the nicest 3" relocation if you want to do that. But for the 1/2" offset I think DoctorDiff has the nicest one.