My truck is a DD too. After the shocks and shock mounts, My truck did MUCH, MUCH, better on and off road. But first let me explain what I upgraded from. I had stock shock mounts, Rancho 5000 something shocks, on a 4 inch lift spings front and blocks in the rear, and old bushings all around. My truck would wander a bit on the highway and had a little play in the steering wheel, but ball joints are new.(just figured it was time to replace the bushings or rebuild my power steering set up) The ride was rough, and cornered poorly. Off road, the ride was even worse, and this is while taking it easy as I still have my ten bolts. Over the last year or so I have been slowly getting the things I needed to do this upgrade.(I'm not rich and pretty busy) I took three days,(I work slowly too) and broke down my rear leafs, sanded and painted with POR-15, put in new anti-friction pads (54 cents each) and put in new ORD poly (greasable) bushings and zero rates all around the truck. Oh and shackle flips too. I then did the MOO rear shock relocator with 12 inch Bilsteins. I was given 2003 F350 front towers and figured I'd try them istead of hunting down the ones most people use.(free is good) With these towers I was able to use a 14 inch travel Bilsteins. So, to be really honest, I can not tell you what made the most difference, likely it was a cumulative effect, but it rides soo nice. I haven't noticed any downside to these mods as of yet and think it was well worth the $$$. Articulation seems to have increased drastically too, again most likely a cumulative effect.
