I decided to go with Bilstein 5100's and OME 960 and will see how they feel for now. *Note, later on during the install, I found out that the because the previous owner installed Daystar spacers that the original coil spring seats were missing. Because of this, I had to decide to either back out of the install or try the install with the existing 2"-3" lift spacers and I went with the later after noticing there was enough slack on all the lines.

I work in the afternoon so I crawled under the truck early this morning and began to install the rear shocks and coils:


Here's a pic of those spacers that I was intending to remove:


I removed the sway bar as I'll also be replacing those bushings while I'm in here:


*I unbolted the brake lines to provide slack for when I remove the shocks and coils.

The passenger side shock came out just fine but the driver side was frozen in place and the shock didn't have an allen to keep it in place. There's no room for a channel lock to use while I wrenched it so I figured I'd bust out my sawzaw to make it easier. Yes, it's a bit barbaric but it gets the job done:


Installation was a breeze there was plenty of room to wrestle in the coils before installing the new shocks.

I used 2nd gen end links for the rear:


And, I got my shocks/coils installed before work starts. Woohoo!!