First off, there's no ****ing way I'm going to switch my springs and mounts back to shackle in the front. That's definitely out.
4 link front would be a possibility, but I'm not ready to do that anytime soon. I need something in place before Clayton... probably even Superlift. But, this would also solve my turning radius issues (where the tire is hitting the outboarded springs). This would have to come later.
I could add longer shackles but I'm not really concerned about the flex. I'm not running competitions with it and I've yet to see a circumstance where more flex would have solved the problem. Maybe once I resolve this traction issue, that will be more aparent.
Kopecki - That's actually a really good question. I assumed that since it worked the way it did in the rear that it would have to be reversed to work like that in the front (with a shackle reversal). That may not be the case at all. But after thinking about it more, that should probably work fine. And in my case I think it would be much easier.