Date:         Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:11:12 -0800
Reply-To:     Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Radius Rod Landing on Frame
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
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On 1/20/15, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Neil, it looks like you .... welded it in on top of the old part.

Hi Jim. Yes. This is what I did. I welded a new piece of plate to face of frame.

> The washer technique would yield the same result--new metal for the
> hole. The fact that the new part if thicker than or offset to the original
> body metal can easily be compensated for by repositioning the washers and
> nuts on the threaded end of the rod.

For sure. Yes. Thanks. If we're talking about the castor setting, I
understood that adding new metal plate to frame face wouldn't cause an
issue in that regard.

This is not a great image:

https://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/RadiusArmHoleBack.jpg

but it shows a new bushing installed to the frame I repaired. The
black arrow points to lip of the bushing which is not sitting flush to
frame face.

Granted this was my first time doing a radius rod bushing job but I
assumed that in the case of an un-repaired OEM thickness frame, the
bushing lip in frame hole ID should sit flush to face at other side of
frame. It appeared to me that adding new metal plate to frame face
would position the bushing so that the bushing lip in hole ID wasn't
flush to frame face.

Sorry for all the writing I'm doing but it is well intended.   :)


>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/20/15, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> >       The WasherThickness Won't Cause a Prob' ~ Just need to be sure
>> that Washer
>> > ID Matches the OD
>> >
>> > of the Step on the RubberBush' or the Alum'Bush if you use T3 ~
>>
>> Maybe I missed a detail in a post here or it wasn't made, or I'm just
>> thick in the head, (LOL) but I'm assuming the washer in question would
>> be welded to face of subframe as per repair I did. Image:
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/tubaneil2/RadiusArmHoleFront.jpg
>>
>> (my welding has improved some since then.   ha ha.)
>>
>> Are Miguel et al talking about welding a washer, or part of a washer,
>> to ID of hole at frame?
>>
>


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