The story so far, old nasty blue shock has been removed along with its linkages, 2003 RSV sachs shock offered up, bolted into place at the top part of the frame, just under the rider seat. using the old bolt fromthe Blue shock. Seems that the RSV shock has a bit of movement about 3-5mm n an up and down fashion when its bolted up and the shock is not sitting tight as it should, unlike the blue one.
Have now took the RSV shock back out and looking at it the top mounting hole diameter of the shock is larger than the original Blue one and the original bolt is therefore a little too small in diameter.
Now to complicate things when I removed the top bolt for the blue shock I noticed a spacer in the frame hole on the left side where the nut goes that holds the shock in place. The spacer has the same size of diameter of hole as the original bolt the blue shock was mounted with. Im guessing here but do I need a different diameter bolt and what do I do about the spacer?
Now I thoth I would give it a go at bolting up the 2003 RSV dog bone and triangles despite the shock having some movement. I was very careful toensure that the arrow on the triangles pointed to the front of the bike. However I can get all the mounting holes to line up except the one at the swing arm, its just out a bout a few milimeter to the right when its attached to the shock and it does not matter if i raise the shock up the 3-5mm of slack, the blooming triangle still wont line up. I should also tell you that the rear wheel is on the floor and if i was to raise the bike a bit the dogbone and the bottom of the shock would be hitting each other and i still wouldnt be able to get the triangle to line up with the last hole. Needless to say I am confused. Am i using the wrong triangles, dog bone and what about the faken bolt which holds it to the frame just under the rider seat?
Please help before I go insane trying to figure this out
Regards
