8.8 swap
Jlcaptain24 - howdy, neighbor!
Holy smokes, are those shock mounts pointing down AND out? I guess maybe you could find some sort of shock with a Heim-style end on it (dirt trackers use them all the time), but I couldn't say if it would already be in a binding situation when you installed it. If proper shock plates are easy enough to come by, I'd use them. Units from an 8.25 ought to have the right size, too.
Clair