I would suggest you hook it up and see. I doubt you will over pressure it. It would be hard to tell anyway as from factory there was little road feel anyway. The only time I would use shims is if you had rack and pinion.
I am actually having the opposite problem. I'm beginning to think it is my box. I will know in about a week when I put another new pump on.
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