4" Drop block question

[BradMph]

I didn't pull any leafs from mine and I would not want to either. The weight of the trucks bed is plenty to keep it settled down. You need those leafs to be able to use the truck as a truck if you needed to. Those help to keep that spongy feel from the suspension and help keep the bed from sagging when hauling anything in the back. The rear of the truck on mine never has any issues with bottoming out at all and as long as the tires fit into wells you should never have a problem with tire cutting. I have hauled some big weight in my truck bed and never had a bottom out. The concern is up front since travel is limited and the weight from engine can make a return bounce off a bump spank the stops. I maintained a 1/2 size bump stop, but if your brave, you can cut the stops off and place them a little lower on the frame, but place some rubber on them so you are not just slapping metal plates together.
Drop spindles are best I think to lower the front, as well you won't stress the drive shaft U-joints to go past their available angles and you can maintain much of the travel the front needs. But the ground never changes and is always going to be there waiting to remind you. Lowering your truck is going to cause things to change that you just have to get use to. You will get use to it and how to drive in certain conditions,(bumpy). Trucks are not made to be lowered, lol.