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Old 10-01-2007, 03:36 AM
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Default How it turned out

It's a long time ago now. Sorry I didn't resond sooner.

I removed the weldment carefully. Only two holes were very slightly enlarged.
I redrilled the weldment in the correct place. I carefully measured to make sure the bolt would go through the engine mount and the wledment and then drilled the hole on the drill press.

I then rerivited the weldment in place. The engine mount has been on for a while.

I didn't get the aluminum angle and spacer to completely enclose thebolt but it is adequate.

I've put it behind me and I'm carrying on but I will probably remove the bolt at 50 hours and get it checked (not sure how or who would do this ut I'm sure there mst be some way of doing it) to see if there is any stress
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Old 01-01-2012, 05:02 PM
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well, I get to join this club, regretfully

enlarging the hole with the reamer yielded an oblonged hole, the rest of the holes are just fine- for some reason this one was the culprit, and of course it's the lower weldment, any ideas/thoughts?



another view to show the opposite side (bolt reversed on purpose to show diameter)



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