1981 pickup, I drive it mosty on road but I enjoy wheeling it 5-8 times a year, locked front and rear on 31'' soon to be 33-34''. I bought a used front lift pack which appears to be rough country 3'' in the front, and it also has 1.5'' longer shackles at all 4 corners, rear leafs are stock. The front is very stiff, it doesn't flex good, I find the truck too high in the front as well and my front drive shaft angle is too steep. The rear however is very soft, it handles great on the road with not much body roll but out in the trails not so much, so here is my question:

Can I keep the front RC main leaf and add 1 or 2 stock leafs to the pack or should I put back the stock main leaf with the rough country 2nd and 3rd leafs? Which one is a better idea? If I could get maybe 1-1.5'' of lift over stock with a bit more flex without it handling like a boat I would be very pleased. I also plan on re-drilling my front shackles to the stock length and adding one more leaf in the back.

Any opinion or personal experience welcome!

As cheesy said. Those springs lift but don't perform. I would try take a stock set of rears turn them around backward, put them up front. Then remove the overload and add the shorted rc spring in place. Set the truck on it see how you like the height/ stiffness. If you don't like it remove that ans add the next longest in its place. Just mix and match till you get it where you like it. Just my $.02, I'm cheap and prefer to used the junk laying around rather than purchase new.

Thanks for the good advice! I will definately drill the shackles back to stock length, and it appears the general concensus is that the RC springs will never flex good and are not meant to, so I will probably replace only the 2nd or 3rd leaf to a stock one only to have it slightly softer, then in a year or 2 buy some OME springs or similar. RUF seems nice but the truck handles so well now I don't want more body roll, that's why I'll add another one in the rear to stiffen it up a bit more.

That's right, only a drop drag link, I don't think I will do high steer so that eliminates the RUF idea.