> Someone told me that air-shocks will give the car a really rough ride.
They will give you a rougher ride. And if you go pumping them up to jack the
car up for a rake, they'll become solid mounts in a manner of speaking,
which will make that pickup truck feel like a walk on the clouds.
> given the fact that I honed my driving skills in a 3/4 ton pickup I'm
> not going to mind.
 =-) I know where your coming from.. Folks today with the 4 corner coil
sprung suspensions that waddle about.
> Shimming the shock mount on the underside of the car with some 1/8"
> thick sheet metal should help it from punching through.
Every little bit helps. But I still wouldn't recommend them things. 
Alex.
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