Replaced shocks all around and springs now front end vibrates

I just replaced the leaf springs a with Old Man Emu Dakar leaf springs and Bilstein 5100 series shocks. I also put in a 1" dif drop kit. Now when I accelerate from a stop the front end vibrates in lower to medium speeds. Almost like driving over those grooves cut into the road near the shoulder of the road. It seems squirlly too pulling from one side to the other. Is this because it needs a front end alignment after putting in new front shocks and the dif drop kit. At times when I step on the clutch to shift gears now you can feel vibration thru the clutch and a revving up sound. What may be happening. It's raised quite a bit from springs and shocks.

 

Get an alignment. That should be the first place you take the truck to after a suspension change.

 

Blue92 gives good advice on getting a alignment. Personally kind of doubt that will fix the issue in its entirety though if something is causing the truck to shudder about.

One thing that strikes me listening to your symptoms is that it is similar to when a ujoint goes bad where it shudders and can be felt through the clutch jumping around. The symptoms your going through sounds exactly like what my 4runner had when it would shudder at acceleration, and seem fine at high speeds until decelerating. Another way to check if its the ujoint is if you go from drive/park to reverse and you hear a dinging/clank sound, or if you lift up the truck and can shake the ujoint freely back and forth. Also a good time to see if maybe your wheels have any play in them from a bad tierod or ball joint getting worn out or snapping due to the extra stress you put on it modifying.

Getting a alignment and mentioning to them your issue and having them examine everything from the suspension was installed correctly, to the drivetrain/tierods/balljoints/cvjoints/etc would be a good idea for sure.

 

Thank you for your input. I'm hoping to get it in today.