Suspension Bolt

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junior2006

Member
Just bought a 96 Ultra for a fixer upper,project. One of the rear bolts that holds in the suspension must have worked loose. The washer has chewed its way through the tunnel to the metal plate. The rivets to hold the plate are all loose and those holes seem enlarged. What would be the best way to repair this? It a fairly clean sled with only 4000 miles,so worth repairing. Thanks
 
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ezra

Well-known member
junior2006 said:
Just bought a 96 Ultra for a fixer upper,project. One of the rear bolts that holds in the suspension must have worked loose. The washer has chewed its way through the tunnel to the metal plate. The rivets to hold the plate are all loose and those holes seem enlarged. What would be the best way to repair this? It a fairly clean sled with only 4000 miles,so worth repairing. Thanks
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I would start with making 2 larger steel plates then sandwich them on the tunnel and rivet rivet rivet
then re drill hole.
if it was me I would use stainless steel and stainless rivets
 
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junior2006

Member
I got it all patched up and back together. Took off old plates and a friend at work scanned them and laser cut some new ones out of .060 stainless. Put a plate inside and out. Just used some 5/16 hardened cap screws with lock nuts to hold it together. It doesn't even look to bad.
 
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