Ok guys, I am sorry, but I forgot about this post. My new job is eating my free time. So I don’t have a picture. But I will try to give a Rick description on how to make the mounts.
Materials needed (for each mount.)
1 6mm bolt 1.5 inches long
2 rubber washers .375 thick x 1.0 od x .300 id (more on how to make later)
2 6mm nuts
1 piece of flat steel .125 thick
2 6mm fender washers 1.0 od
1 piece of steel tubing .750 long x .250 id x .325 od
Ok first lets make the backing plate. I used 500 series stainless for this, but that might be hard for people without access to the proper tools to work with. If you have an old broken mount (every one probably does)
Use the mount to trace the shape of the backing plate. Then saw cut grind or file the piece into shape. Once it is done take the old mount and use it to line up to drill the holes. You will need to drill a .250 hole in either end. One will be oblong the other will be a nice round hole. Or at least it should be. The end with the oblong hole it to mount to the frame the other is where we will be building the rubber mount. I drilled 2 holes right next to each other then used a pencil die grinder to remove the material between them. Once you have the holes drilled, install the bolt into the round hole and screw a nut on it. I then tack welded the head of the bolt to the steel to keep it from ever being able to turn. The nut was kind of an accident cause it was originally just to hold the bolt for the tack welds. But it worked out great as my spacer. Now install a fender washer onto the bolt then the piece of tubing. Now onto the rubber washers. I don’t really know where to get the rubber matting, I get it from work. But this is how I make the washers. I Take a piece of tubing with and id of about an inch grind around the end of it at a 45 degree angle till it comes to a sharp edge on the end. Using this like a cookie cutter I place the rubber on a nice sturdy piece of wood and hammer the tubing through the rubber till it sticks into the wood just a bit. Then knock out the piece and you have a nice round piece of rubber. For the hole in the middle I use a piece of the .325 od tubing and the same method as before. Once you have completed your rubber washers. Then install one over the tubing butted up against the fender washer. You should have the mount on your bike at this time. I don’t remember if I hade to enlarge the holes in the mount on the pipe its self, but you might have to. Install your pipe onto the mount. It should slide over the end of the tubing and rest against the rubber washer. Then install the other rubber washer on the out side of the pipe mount. Then the last fender washer then the nut. Tighten the nut up till the fender washer it snug against the piece of tubing. The tubing is the spacer that controls how tight your mount is. The longer the tubing the looser the mount is on the pipe. The shorter the tubing the tighter the mount on the pipe.
Ok, I have done this all pretty much from memory while at work. But it should give you the basic idea of how it works. I will try to get some pictures. But will be out of town for a while, so it will be at least a week
Before I get too. Hope this helps out.
Later,
Jody
