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Those appear to be the stock ones. I was more interested in tubular ones and an elevated bump stop for the lowered front end.

 

I looked at those too. In the end I just painted my stockers but I did swap to the 71-73 bump stop. kip

 

My stock ones are nasty. Plus they hide the shocks and springs I just put on. Like putting a garbage bag in a supermodel.

 

Not sure why covering the springs with stock replacements is a concern. Unless you’re constantly putting your car on stands and taking the wheels off, nobody will ever see the shocks and springs.

 

Put a bumpstop on the shaft of your coilover and ditch the whole outer tower.

You can't see any of it other than the LCA with the tire on.

 

Do the covers add rigidity to the shock tower?

 

When I posted that question on the forum before I removed mine the answer, mostly from racers, was no. Outer Shock Towers, Do I need Them?

 

RideTech Shock Tower Brace, 64-66 Mustang
I'm torn between the Global West ones and These RideTech ones.

 

I saw those be they don’t have a bump stop.

 

I found these, but no bump stops. Not sure why some feel they aren't required?

Coil Spring Covers 1965-66

Vintage Mustang, Shelby Mustang, Cobra and GT40 engines, suspensions, and other components and parts for open track racers and high performance street enthusiasts.

store.cobraautomotive.com

 

 

Or customize it yourself.

 

That requires actual skills.

 

Street or Track Shaft Mounted Bump Stop Conversion

NASCAR spec. progressive durometer bump stop installs on the shaft of our Bilstein coilover shock and replaces the stock bump stop.

streetortrack.com

 

I will need to see if those work with Viking shocks.

 

I made my own replacements...not nearly as pretty, but they make a solid take-off point for my cowl-rocker-outer shock tower bracing. Triangulation overkill for the win?

 

Do you have a bump stop?

 

If the top or bottom of the shock can be unthreaded to the shaft diameter then installing the bump stops is DYI friendly. Otherwise the shock has to be completely disassembled to install. My front non-adjustable Bilstein shocks cannot have the bump stops installed without the shock being disassembled from what I see, but I was able to remove and cut down the bump stops on the rear Bilstein double adjustable shocks myself relatively easy.

 

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I had no issues installing the bump stops on my non--adjustable ones. Remove the tension from the spring, slide the spring hat off, break the jam nut on the upper rod end bearing loose and unscrew them. Install bump stop and reassembled.

 

Theoretically speaking...even if you couldn't remove the end, you could cut the bumpstops in half with a thin blade(bandsaw, hacksaw, whatever) and slip them around the shaft and screw them back together afterward, they would still function as bumpstops...it would even expand the number of things you could use as bumpstops, IE something like this:

Foster-Mfg.com: Z-CLAMP Split Rubber Bushings