5100's are for lifted trucks for our body style. You'd have to get the bilstein hd's if you want shocks like the 5100's. Same shock, just different colors and for stock height applications.
IIRC they have regular 4600 series, and HD series... The ones I Was looking at were just normal 4600 series and were $75ea. I think the HD ones were right around $100ea. I was just looking at them on monday. Getting ready to order some myself.
no the only thing you have to remove is the shock itself. I replaced the ones on my 97 2wd w/o any problems. The front are easy, the rear are a pain in the arse b/c you just have that little window in the frame to reach the top nut. One of mine had boogered up threads so bad I ended up having to take a torch and cut it off. Set the bushing on fire too... haha! Fun times.
Yea takes all of 5 minutes to change the fronts, it'll take about 5 hours or so to do a coil spacer install. Rears like he said^ are a pain to do, it took me like an hour and half to do mine because the shock nut had rusted itself in place.
Not that easy, you have to take the spindle off or undo it either from the upper or lower balljoint, disconnect the tie rod most likely, and the sway bar to be able to drop the control arm low enough to get it back in. And good luck using the coil compressor, they're hard to fit up in the coil pocket. It's easier to just disconnect everything and step on the lower control arm until you can push it down far enough to get it out.
But adding a 2" coil spacer will kill the smooth ride your trying to achieve with those new shocks.
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