Thanks everyone for the help and advice, it turns out when we pulled the old shock out the bushing came out with it and we mustve overlooked it when we went back together.
I thought that something was wrong with the assembly, so we measured and the truck sits exactly level, it doesnt lean one way or anything. the only thing out of place is that extra lenght
Here are some pictures the first one is the passenger side which is fine the second one is the drivers side after we set it down off the lift. they both looked fine before setting it down.
I recently helped a buddy replace his xreas shock system with bilstein shocks and struts. We did the swap with minimal problems but when we set it down off the lift we noticed that the top part of the drivers side strut stuck up about a quarter to a half inch higher than the passenger. And now...