Thankyou all for such prompt responses.
Im a bit miffed as i didnt realise that the shock spacers needed such an amount of work before fitting them into the shock bodies. Now ive got the choice of whether to strip the bodies down again risking damaging my "whities" Nortech orings to file the spacers down, or to risk seeing how they go for now ?
Ill say one thing for Tamiya - apart from an extra shim here and there, the instructions and the components them selves are of a much better quality than these AE ones. No bloody filing/drilling messing about needed.
Cheers guys
Richard