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Mike_Berkshire:
After a few days out of the shed focusing on other tasks I got the new main bushes and shock bushes in the swinging arm this morning and refitted the cleaned up brake pivot, swinging arm and centre stand into the repainted frame. There is a washer/plate that from my pre strip down photos goes under the nut of one of the centre stand pinch bolts. (RHS I think). It looks as if a spring hooks onto it. Unfortunately I didn’t take a photo of what hooks onto this little plate; what fits on here? Cheers.

Johnny4428:
Mike that’s the plate for the battery vent if you’ve got a lead acid battery on your bike.

Mike_Berkshire:
Thanks Johnny. That explains it. The bike had a cheap sealed battery fitted with no breather tube. No breather tube means there was nothing that I detached from the plate and therefore no photo. A great help, thanks.

Mike_Berkshire:
I have a couple more questions as I continue to put the frame and swinging arm back together. I have fitted new shocks to the swinging arm and the top of each shock is as it was on the bike when got it is as follows working from outside in: the dome nut then a plain washer, then the grabrail and lastly the top mount bush of the shock absorber. I have put it back together like this. There is no torque setting specified in the manual. When I tighten the dome nut I can see the rubber bushing bulge out a bit between the grabrail and the frame; is this right? For the lower mount, there is a bolt with no washer that screws through the shock mount bush and into a receiving thread on the lower shock absorber mount. There is no spring washer or similar to prevent the bolt loosening with vibration etc; again, is this right? I have checked both the Haynes manual and the parts book and there are no other parts specified. Thanks, Mike

Bryanj:
Simple answer Yes

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