Yeah, my experience was similar although I still had a bit of hop on the street. There is a pretty significant difference in weight between the driver's and passenger side axles with the 350 shaft on the driver's side. I thought maybe the unequal weight might reduce the hop. It is probably just because the pavement is cold and it will spin street tires so easily.
You have to go full hard mount or very close to it. Lower control arm and toe link bearings are the 2 items a lot of people skip...mainly because you have to completely remove your rear lower arms and rear knuckles to have the stock rubber bushings pressed out and the bearings pressed in. Bottom line, you will never get rid of all the hop without doing those among other things such as vertical links, camber arms, locking down the sub frame to the car and the diff to the sub frame. There is a rubber bushing at every one of those junctions which all contribute to the hop.
You do NOT have to remove the rear knuckle to replace the knuckle to toe link rubber bushing with a bearing. The Ford Performance instructions show the use of a ball joint press (C-clamp style) to remove the bushing and to replace with a bearing. It saves a lot of time.
True, but if you're doing the rear lower control arm bearings you have to remove the knuckles anyway, at that point you might as well do the toe bearings on a press.
Tires, tires, tires. Many AS tires have absolutely terrible hop regardless of mods.
