rear shocker mount knackered

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Hi, upper shocker mount on my li special is nacked, nut won,t fully tighten, whats my options ?
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It's a big coarse thread on mild steel, so unless it's had some serious abuse or has been cross-threaded a thread file or the correct die should clean up the threads ok.
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SR sell new pins.
Did you have to do that?
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Drill a hole through it and the nut, put wire through as temp.
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thanks for your replies, i think i,ll try find a dye and go over the threads, was looking at a new mount/pin but its a lora work that way :(
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Mr Runner,
On my sprinter, due to having to take the rear 'non shocker' (its a dural bar btw) off several times, I managed to damage the top mount.
It was too knackered to put a die nut on of the same thread size.
To avoid putting a new pin in, we filed/fettled it a bit and then put a smaller thread die on it - I think its the clutch nut/cluster thread size now.
Nobody will notice (unless its an anorak resto), its safe and works.
Just another idea/solution.
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drill the nut and put a grub/allen screw inplace .its only to hold the shocker on to the shaft not the forth bridge!
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Ken Tucky wrote:Mr Runner,
On my sprinter, due to having to take the rear 'non shocker' (its a dural bar btw) off several times, I managed to damage the top mount.
It was too knackered to put a die nut on of the same thread size.
To avoid putting a new pin in, we filed/fettled it a bit and then put a smaller thread die on it - I think its the clutch nut/cluster thread size now.
Nobody will notice (unless its an anorak resto), its safe and works.
Just another idea/solution.
Mr Tucky

Mr Tucky, dou you know the size of the dye i,ll need for the clutch nut (like the idea of keeping it standard looking)
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just a thought has any one used that liquid metal , would some thing like that work , then run over the thread with the correct size dye
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It's M16 x 1.5. It's a fine thread, not course. As suggested above just clean it up with a die and if it's too far gone, Scooter Restorations sell replacements.
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