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In the discussion and pictures of the shocks, while at Half Moon Bay, I was looking at the pictures that I took of my shocks and noticed what looked like a crack in the shock mount, well going out and looking, sure enough the right side mount was cracked and broken.





I rebuilt both mounts after I got home yesterday and beefed them up a bit with a gusset.



Installed



For a complete write up here is the link to a .PDF file with pictures.

Broken shock mounts


Ed
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One wonders why Barth didn't put the mounting bolts on top, so the bracket would be in compression. Nice job, BTW. I need to get a welding machine...


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