MrWill Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Hello there. Quick post in case this gumption trap presents itself to anyone else and this may be of help as the manuals are strangely poor on detail on the rear mounts. So I took off the rear damper mounting points or 'clevis' as part of the suspension refresh. When I came back to refit, the inner thread had dropped 3mm and I couldn't refit the bolts. 🤨 Hope you can see that in first pic. Tried all sorts of jacking various parts of the main and rear sub frame to no avail. The threads are a triangular ali block inside a triangular section. The answer was to fashion a pole to bypass the brake lines, fit inside the recess which can then be jacked up to realign the subframe hole with the threads of the block behind. Couldn't see anyone else had this issue when searching the forum. Hope this helps save someone else some head scratching 🤔. MrWill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyfox Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWill Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Cheers ears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyKnight Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I had this exact problem when I did mine, totally pissed me off. I snapped a bolt trying to tighten it into the dropped hole, then I drilled out the thread and totally knackered the block inside the rear frame. Ended up buying an new block from Deroure, installed it using a cable router and string so I didn't have to remove the rear clam. Sorted in the end but £80 worse off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWill Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 Those disasters smart for ages don't they... sorry for bringing it up again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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