Pics ?
Capri are shorter by about 15mm or there abouts to Australia RS/all pinto escort. Send back or space up the insert??

Nah its too small in circumference. I wanted the Capri ones and that's what I ordered but they said they wouldn't fit and would need these ones - which are wrong. I could sleeve them with the correct sized tube but stuff that - I want the larger body shocker.

 
 

Here's a set I have as you can see from the post number these are for Capri escort RS UK models if yours are the same as mine , that's all there is. They don't have 2.0 struts in UK only 1600 and Capri which are escort mk1 twin cam and UK RS only, not Australia RS.
The diameter is 42mm . Compare pics with yours mate





If you have Capri struts all will be fine but pinto strut is it's own family and needs the shock to be spaced up to be squashed tightly. Only trying to help and clarify what you've got.
Inserts never slide against the tube there's always a gap. The gland but does the locating

Wait so it wont fill the tube up? Wouldn't that be bad juju for the strut/shock support wise?

My measurements match yours exactly and the stock retainer fits it well - but I thought it would need to marry up with the ID of the strut?
 

 

 
Well I am wrong then if that's the case - will need to apologize to Gordon because he sent the right ones!
 
What would be the best strategy for spacing them up so that they still locate down the bottom correctly?

Glad this has cleared things up ..
To space then up I've used large nuts and turned them down or just use washers that have a wide hole, they'll centre themselves if they are 2in dia , they don't need to be super exact but as close as you can get

I assumed you meant too short also, sounds like a win then!
Carry on.

I assumed you meant too short also, sounds like a win then!
Carry on.

As they say moments of idiocy are sometimes followed by a flash of genius ! After my "wrong shocks" moment earlier I came up with a great idea for the spacers.
 
So I had this really fancy bit of aluminum that was basically useless, until I noticed it had a really nice cutout in it that matched the bottom of the shocker perfectly..



 
I think you can already see where this is going.. So I threw it in the strut and the clearance was pretty good.. only about .5 of a mm all the way around.. 
 

 
And chucked the insert in and tightened it down...
 

 
A perfect spacer! It sits down in the bottom well and the shock fits in the recess and is supported nicely - job done! 
 

That's a stroke of genius right there !!!

Well that was a mission, the downfalls of powder coating is that it makes everything a bit bigger.. which resulted in the top hats of the springs not wanting to fit down over the shock properly, so after some filing they slipped down and then the next issue became apparent - the top hat didn't want to slip over the spring properly which resulted in about an hour of swearing to get it to seat nicely.
 
 

 
One of them still isn't 100% snug but I'm counting on it seating itself fully on the first drive or so - it might need to scrape some of the powder coat off itself .
 
That's enough for today, I'll chuck them in the car tomorrow.
 
Far out..... I just noticed I didn't put the bump stops in...... Oh well Ill sort that in the morning