1/2in heim, 12mm bolt, home made traction bar... how to get rid of play?
 

How can i get rid of the play between the 1/2in heim and the M12 bolt on the LCA?? (90 EF)

clunk clunk every time i speed up or slow down... :3

i suppose i could drill out the LCA and use 1/2in hardware... i could also build some weld up on the M12 and grind it down (so HMT)

how do other traction bars deal with this?

any good HMT ideas?

Re: 1/2in heim, 12mm bolt, home made traction bar... how to get rid of play?
 

using an m12 heim isn't an option?

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I went to the ma and pop hardware store, and bought 6" of .005 shim stock and cut it into strips about .45" X 6" and taped it to the bolt and wraped it around untill it was as close to .50" as i could get. I slid it in and bolted it on and called it a day. HMT NIGGA!!!!!! lol

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i couldnt find any except imperial, 1/2in, 5/8th, 3/4, etc...

would suck to remake the radius rods, but not out of the question.

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hahah i didnt think u could get "shim stock" hahah that is more HMT than my idea. rofl

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weir, its way cheaper to use 1/2" than m12. and you can get the 1/2" swedged tubes for cheaper than the tube stock to build the tubes.

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Drill it through and use a 1/2 bolt.

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I was gona do that, but its not flat on the bottom of the lca, and i thought I wouldnt get it perfect and then I would have a bunch of slop and fucked up lca's... :-\

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hey csaddict still have the picture from your hm-traction bars? i was looking at it the other days and all the pics were dead

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drill and tap to 1/2" or step up to 5/*" heim and have bushings machined.

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nowwww.... the question is... will the LCA bolts come out so i can remove the LCA to retap it?? lol

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easy.

1 go to shops, get 2 of 1/2" bolts (cheaper the better, get em long too...)
2 screw into heim, cut off heads flush with top of heim,
3 put 1/8"chamfer around newly cut bolt (for weld channel...)
4 plug weld them in, both ends.
5 drill / tap m12 straight down through the bolts
6 done, beer time.

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way better than drilling the LCAs... good tip and good man. threaded bushings. hehe

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ended up boring out some 1/2 in hydraulic tube and used it as a bushing between the M12 and the 1/2in hardware. haha

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how was the drive home?

Re: 1/2in heim, 12mm bolt, home made traction bar... how to get rid of play?
 

still got wheel hop w/ the 15's at 40psi... i got out of it real quick. haha need to keep that tranny alive.

kinda annoying... hopfully the tire store pulls through with the slicks today :6

internet at home is gone... someone found out what a wireless password is... :(

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hmm i wonder why it hopped, was it bad ?

fucken call them and bitch that the season is almost over and you need them for this friday, are you using the other 14s?

hahahahahah and you were even nice enough to give them the up date
call telus get your ---- hooked up O0

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------ tire shop... dropped the ball.

slicks wont be here till next week tuesday. ---- off.

gonna roll off the line on friday. boo


the wheel hop wasnt BAD but it was there... lets just say i was worried about the tranny. lol.

yeah im gonna rock the street tires at like 25psi to start. see how that goes.

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This one is easy. I would first say to use a metric heim, but find swaged tubing in m12 is damn near impossible. Also if you ever need anything www.mcmaster.com is the bible.

Second, I did a bit of conversion and the gap your looking to make up is .7mm or .0275". What you need is a piece of pipe or tube with a wall thickness of .0275. Your likely to find thin copper or aluminum piping with those specs. Just cut yourself a small piece and slip it over the bolt. Problem solved. I had to do the same when my shocks had some play while trying to put them into the forks, it was just a little bigger..