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

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Old Sep 16, 2008 | 02:29 AM
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nowwww.... the question is... will the LCA bolts come out so i can remove the LCA to retap it?? lol
Old Sep 16, 2008 | 05:34 AM
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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.
Old Sep 16, 2008 | 03:54 PM
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way better than drilling the LCAs... good tip and good man. threaded bushings. hehe
Old Sep 17, 2008 | 12:31 PM
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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
Old Sep 17, 2008 | 02:24 PM
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how was the drive home?
Old Sep 17, 2008 | 02:27 PM
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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

internet at home is gone... someone found out what a wireless password is...
Old Sep 17, 2008 | 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by danz
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

internet at home is gone... someone found out what a wireless password is...
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
Old Sep 17, 2008 | 06:02 PM
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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.
Old Sep 18, 2008 | 05:23 AM
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Default Re: 1/2in heim, 12mm bolt, home made traction bar... how to get rid of play?

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..
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