Now, if you insert a 110mm or 120mm shouldered bolt from the tyre side you can use the bolt and a washer + nut to mount the shock as per normal with pleanty of extra thread for a second locking nut if wanted. A cure would have been to tack weld a guide tube to centralise the drill but I had no way to do that. I tiny error at the start means the last drill hole is very slighlty off centre. The metal is fairly soft, not hardened at all. The photo on the left is the final 9.5mm hole. The picture on the right is the pilot hole at about 5mm, might have been 3mm looking at it. The middle picture is the stub filed flat and centre punched. If you use a 10mm drill bit you drill out a fair bit of the actual boss / bush that the shocker fits over. I nearly used a 10mm drill bit for the M10 bolt, but using a micrometer found that M10 bolts are about 9.70mm and the 9.5mm bit gave a nice fit. Finally inserting a M10 bolt to hold the shocker in place. Then reamimg the hole with a 7mm bit and then a 9.5 mm bit.ĥ. Drilling down the centre of the stud with a new 5mm pilot bit. Sharpening my centre punch and putting a punch mark as central as I could.ģ. Filing the remaining threaded stud flat.Ģ.
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