If you have reservations on dropping down to 3 leaves on your springs you can do what I did and use a set of air adjustable shocks for the rear, you can then tune the rear suspension to whatever heighth you like when needed and the air shocks will compensate for the missing leaves absorbing the load.
just a thought
Tim


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