I am in this exact situation at the moment. After weighing all the pros and Cons, I personally decided to knife the OEM brackets off. Figured that with the multi-leaf conversion, Hotchkis Traction bar and Sway Bar Max Brace, I should be set. Worse comes to worse and still need something, I'll just add an under-the-leaf trac bar setup.

I did look at it six way of Sunday, and the only way woulb be to make some seriously higher saddles for the sway-bar. But even then you're gonna lose some benefit with the additional leverage. (Or would that be better?)