JRoss14

Take off your bump stops, you're probably bottoming out on them. It feels about the same as bottoming out a shock. This happened all the time on my last truck until I took them off, then it rode like factory. Your factory shocks shouldn't bottom out with the shackles only. Also, Belltech makes a shock extender bracket, so that you can retain the original shocks with any drop.

I'll be installing shackles and removing the blocks on mine over the holidays as well. I'll try to get some before/after pics up. Tjay did you cut your bump stops down, replace with shorter bump stops or did you even mess with them?

I'm thinking about doing the same, let me know how it goes if you get to it first and I'll do the same.

Just made a 358 mile round trip from Fort Worth to Norman, OK and back, through wind (headwind / crosswind / tailwind), mountainous terrain in the Arbuckle mountains, and flat land. This was on a 2nd straight tank of E85, with the cruise control set on 75mph the entire way, with very minimal (3-4 miles) town driving. I averaged 17.8 mpg on the DIC trip readout. My last trip from Fort Worth to Lubbock and back I averaged 22mpg on premium unleaded. The mileage is definitely better (about 25-30%) with unleaded, but you can feel a difference in power with the E85. I'm 100% stock 2wd crewcab, 20" texas edition wheels, 5.3 and .342 gears.

Im averaging 10-11 in town on E85, but then again I remote start every morning, hit about 7 or 8 lights on my 2.5 mile commute, and no telling how many times per day the valet guys move my truck while i'm at work. 22 on the highway running 80mph on regular gas. Stock 5.3 w/ 3.42s