Yeah, point taken. I have not made my final decision decision yet. I like the Donahoe coilovers, but I am not crazy about the rear shocks. They are kinda chinsy. I also don't like the reservoir, I would rather have a monotube design with no clutter. That is what attracts me to the SAW setup, but I had the SAW rear shocks on my last truck and they were stiff as a brick. I even revalved from the 10 stack they came with to a fluttered 8 stack and they were still pretty stiff. I don't know what to attribute that too, but that is what happened. They may have been stiff still because the rebound was left at a full 10 stack though and that could have contributed to the stiff ride, but I am not sure because the compresion was really softened. I also used the Hoes in the rear as well for a short time and loved how they rode, just could not stand the reservoir and how it had to mounted. The shock mount gets in the way of the reservoir hose and I hate having to drill into my frame. I heard you can mount the reservoir to the shock body itself, but I have never seen that done and from my recolection the hose is very stiff and it seems that would put a lot of stress on the valves the hose is connected to.
I know the Kings have reservoirs all the way around, but it seems as though they came up with a clean way to mount it with their brackets. I am not sure how the install goes and that is one of the things that I wanted to reseach about them. Not to mention they are kinda rare, not many people have them and I kinda like the unique nature of having something like that. I would jump on the Dhoe setup if they had a rear shock without a resi. I tried to see if the FJ rear shock would work, but they said no because the lower bushing is a different size.
My final choice is just going with a lift spindle, deavers and bilstein 5100 all the way around. I am scared to that though because I dont want to be a guinea pig for that setup. I would like to know if I can run 295/70/17 or 295/75/16 tires, but nobody knows because nobody has tried it, I even contacted Allied and they had no clue. Finding shocks to work with deavers is tough though because those springs have so much travel that every shock I have tried tops out before the spring can totally extend. I tried both SAW and Dhoe with deavers. When you comepare the SAW to the Dhoe shocks the SAW are a smidge longer, but still not long enough to keep up with the deaver springs. You would think by now somebody would make an extended travel shock for the rear of this truck.