I'm three zip codes from a potential friendship with Garth Brooks, so understand completely....
Help me out here.
For this purpose, discussing the rear 5 link only.
Raising the panhard at the rear axle seems the acceptable manner to lessen the severity of the angle a lifted condition forces.
Can't raise the lower links above the axle (I understand they can be raised to the CL of the housing.) so the only means to return the lower link angle to a near OE angle is to move them further away from the axle housing, towards the front of the frame.
Before even considering link separation at the axle of frame, I realize there's all kinds of other data to process, but it would appear that, if maintaining the OE link separation at both the axle and frame, that lengthening the uppers and lowers, moving the frame side further forward, would correct all issues with the ass end walking around.
Add a JJ or heim to the equation (although I despise both) and this "fixes" the rear end, right?
I don't want the 5 1/4" rear lift I currently have, but without a coil over option, coil springs seem the only manner to suspend.
My mundane thinking is to literally move the frame mounts forward, to wherever they flatten out to an OE angle, raise the lowers to the CL of the axle housing, separate the uppers the same distance at OE at the axle housing, then replicate at the frame side.
Tell my why this thinking is in error?
The ass end of mine could wear yoga pants, as far as flexibility is concerned, so why does the wheel need to be reinvented, if the geometry of said wheel is still round?