It went very well, thanks to Cityyeti's help! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />
We cranked the t-bars first, gained around two inches, with 13 and 15 turns right and left respectively. I wanted to make sure I could lift the front enough to match the back - it turned out that I was even able to level it out a bit - managed to get rid of some of the slight front-nose-down attitude.
Then we went to the back. We used hard rubber "donut" spacers, that had a small valley for the coil to sit it - used coil spring compressors to compress the springs somewhat, but it was a little more difficult because of the air bags inside my coils - we managed, after some struggling, to slide the spacers under the coils, as well as poly pucks under the air bags, since the spacers are hollow in the middle, and the airbags would've been too short to be effective without them (these "pucks" came with the airbags, but were meant for an alternate application with these bags, and not necessary for OE Paj/Monty coils).
Once we had both sides done, I went back to the front with a hacksaw to chop off the bumpstops, which were almost sitting on the stoppers. That done, we went for a test-ride. Couldn't find a suspension-bottoming bump to hit, but my seat of the pants analysis tells me that the ride quality hasn't changed. After settling, and raising front and rear, I've gained approx 2" on the front, and 1 1/2" in the back...
Now I definitely need to get some 33's on there. The gap between the flare and the tire is excessive, bordering on ridiculous. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> Truck looks much less mall-crawler-ish now. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />
Thanks again Maurie! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" /> We'll get Betsy IV done soon too!