5" coil drop, relocate shock mount?????
 

I was checking out some coil drop kits at early classics, and I noticed that they have rear shock relocators. Is this necessary with a 5" rear drop coil, or is it just another gimmick???

Definatly do it. I have done a few static lowerings on truck before. I had a 95 ext cab with 5/6 drop, and shocks in the stock location. If you look at them after with that much drop, they were sitting at about a 140 degree angle. They were almost horizontal. You want the shock to be pretty close to the stock posistion if not more vertical. :flag:

At a minim you need to get shorter shocks. You would also need a adjustable panhand bar to correctly center your rear end. I installed the ECE kit. But it looks like you could rotate the stock top shock mounts 180 and get pretty close to the ECE kit.

The stock upper shock mount comes down like a triangle, how would reversing it change anything? The 4/6 kit I put on my 70 came with the shocks, rear mount kit and longer pan bar. If I'm not mistaken, you still need those parts with a 5 " spring too.
I wouldn't worry about them trying to sell you anything you don't need, they made the original stuff for our trucks, and everybody else either sells theirs or has copied them. You can tell by just talking to them on the phone that they know what there're doing.

It would move the mount point further back.

I'm not an engineer, and hate to argue your point, but if the bracket is a triangle pointing down and you turn it around, how does it change were the shock mount bolt goes?