I got the shocks in this morning. Thanks for everyone's help.  The rear ones
were a joke, about 10 minutes apiece. The fonts ones OTOH...

Question. The passenger side took forver to get that top nut off and then
get that plastic sleeve off. I put the old plastic sleeve on the new shock
and there was a brass sleeve that was on the shock so I left it there. When
I installed the shock the top of the shock did not protrude as much as the
old one. On to the drivers side shock, the top nut came off in seconds. The
plastic sleeve dropped right off.  When I went to put the new shock in the
plastic sleeve, which looked a little different then the one on the other
side, the brass sleeve made it impossible to put the plastic sleeve back on
so I left it off. What is that sleeve for?

Thanks,
Bryan