These shocks added height to my Duster's stock suspension

dartfreak75 said

Those were the new springs yes. Those are the ones I still have I guess its possible I got the wrong ones I was only 17 when i put those on I didnt know much. Still dont apparently lol. I didnt know the spring hangers (shackles) were supposed to be angled.

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Yes, the shackle should be angled. It's in the Chrysler chassis book, and if you are really old, it's in the old DC book.

The reason is the spring changes length as it compresses (bump) and extends (rebound). The only way it can change lengths is to have one end move to allow it to change length.

If you have it straight up and down as you do, as you put the spring in compression (bump for old people) the spring can't get short enough because the shackle can't move far enough forward to allow the spring to get shorter.

Extension (rebound for old people like me) doesn't move nearly as much so that's why you can have the shackle angled back.

Skip the SS springs. They were never all that. Even in the late 1970's (or the early 1980's at the latest) Chrysler was trying to get the SS guys to use what they called the leaf link suspension because the SS was already obsolete. It's pretty much obsolete for everything. Not unlike the pinion snubber.