When I get to work, I looked down by the foot peg. Something looked strange. I thought that the gas tank was sagging a bit. I looked closer. To my surprise, a bolt was missing where the rear frame attaches to the main frame.
I rode home without any problem, but as soon as I finished the dinner I started on this project. The problem turned out to be the broken bolt, not missing bolt.
First I thought about drilling the bolt out. BUT, I soon realized that I need to be VERY careful. There is a plastic gas tank just behind the bolt. If I go through the bolt, I might drill a hole into the gas tank. That would be a DISASTER! So as you can see, I put the crescent wrench handle behind it to stop the accident.
I drilled a hole big enough for the bolt extractor. I struggled with different size of the extractor, but #3 was the one that got the job done.
Time to make a trip to the hardware store. I found out that the bolt was 8mm x 1.25. Length was 20mm-ish.
So just to be sure, I put 25mm in there. YAY, the project done in just a couple of hours.
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