FOAK MetaGoogle request - steering damper bush

The Morini has an adjustable hydraulic steering damper (not that it
really needs one on the road) of what used to be called Kawasaki style.
The damping is fine, but the bush that has a bolt through it to attach
to the bottom yoke has a rather perished rubber bush with a loose steel
sleeve. A bit like a small version of a twin shock top or bottom
mounting, but only a 5mm bolt (I think). Can't find anything suitable by
Googling. Any ideas on replacement. It seems silly to have to get a new
complete damper (even if the correct type is still available), and in
any case its functional but well used appearance add to the 'patina'.

Very, very close to complete now. I might take a photo tomorrow.
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Could you make something up using proper rose joints?

http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/ROD-ENDS/c184/index.html

 

Purely curiosity here, but does the damper mount on a lug on the RHS
of the bike and a rearward-facing bolt hole in the middle of the lower
yoke?

 

Presumably the metal part of the bushing is still OK?

This any use?

http://www.mcmaster.com/#rubber-grommet-bushings

 

I love McM-C, but the buggers don't send here.

 

I reckon I might have something. Post the pic and let's see.

 

A bracket is bolted to the frame on the right hand side just below the
steering head. The damper unit has a right angled pivot mounting that
bolts to that. A small bolt goes up through the offending bush in to a
tapped hole in the underside of the bottom yoke. 350 Sports came with a
non-adjustable one as standard and the 250 frame has the mounting holes
in the same place. You have to use some ingenuity to fit the adjustable
type, particularly on a 250, but fortunately the frame bracket has a
series of holes, so you can get the stroke right (oo err).


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In communiqué <1jwgpn4.1yzn3i41e5v9zhN%>,

OK. Might also do a short video clip of the beast in all its snarling
glory.

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Ditto, in my big box of bits (rubber section).

If I don't, I know a motor factor who prolly has.

 

Should be easy enough to make a new one with Plasti Dip or some other
liquid rubber if you can't find anything suitable.

 

OK, photos, up to my usual standard.
The damper:
http://www.ps-fisher.demon.co.uk/pickchurs/Damper.jpg
The bush:
http://www.ps-fisher.demon.co.uk/pickchurs/damper_bush.jpg

The rubber bit goes in an eye with an ID of 15mm and the steel sleeve
has an OD of 11mm.

Looking at it carefully I reckon the eye may screw in to the rod, so
suitable a fancy rose joint might work. A bit OTT for a SO Morini
though. I may need the cash to buy a complete damper for the Shiver
before taking it to Pahnd Island.


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Looking at that, I've almost certainly got something. I'll have a look
in my Begiiner's Big Box of Buggered Bouncy Bike Bits tonight.

 

Noted.

 

Make your own with polyeurethane gloop.
Here's a bigger diy version...
http://forum.bmw5.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=47577

However, I know there's a smaller tube available which has been used
with some success for engine mounts - will continue to google.

 

Here we go
http://www.google.com/search?q=diy+engine+mount&btnG=Search&hl=en&safe=off&sa=2
The same gloop is available over here, quite cheaply.

 

In communiqué <>, Grimly

I'll keep that up my sleeve in case nothing else is possible. Speaking
of engine mounts (as some of those links do), I just started it up
again. I had forgotten how much more the vibes get through to the saddle
when a tuned 350 is mounted in a 250 frame (only three bolts at the
front instead of four). Also the comedy tacho which apart from the
needle flapping furiously tries to escape its primitive rubber band
mounting on each surge of revs, and that's with a brand new cable. The
black electrical tape bodge is going to have to be employed again to
restrain it.
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Ah. I was wondering if it was the same damper arrangement as used on
V11 Guzzis, but it seems not.