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I ordered new shocks to match up with my fronts. I got the exact same as my front shocks, 10" travel Bilstein 5125s. These are an eye mount and do not come with the bar pin needed for the upper rear mount. I did lots of searching and none of the Jeep bar pin eliminators (BPE) had the correct bolt spacing, 2 7/8". They were either longer or too short.
I decided to make my own BPE out of a piece of chrome plated rod I found in the scrap and some 1" bar stock.
The benefit of the BPE is that they preload the bushing, I added 1 washer per side since I made a small calculation mistake in the length of the pin and wound up with zero preload on the bushing. With the washers the preload is perfect. Another benefit is that the BPE are much beefier than the stock bar pin mounts.
And installed:
2018 update: I now make a simpler version that is available:
Looks like all my pics are broken links now. They were hosted on here but got messed up a few years ago when there was a problem with the gallery. I'll see if I can find the original photos and update them.