Well it all seams to be working fine......
Fitted the shock after sourcing some Scottish priced spacer washers
and the top bolt on the Fazer went in through the top hole in the shock and was a nice snug fit, greased and bolted it up with a couple of washers either side
Now the dogbones were a different issue
With original ones the bike was way too low but not anywhere near the tyre so this got me thinking that the spring on this must be a stronger one than on original R6 shocks.
So in the meantime I've decided to purchase some flat bar of appropriate measurements and make up a couple of dogbones to let me see how it sits with the correct length of bones.
My drilling was going great till I discovered that any drill bits I had above 10mm wasn't going to cut butter never mind metal
So I take them to work to get cut out a wee bit more, that takes an extra day out my testing/riding but still, it's done now.
So dogbones on and all linkage greased up I think all looks good so think I'll try it out on a wee journey along main road before I venture onto the twisty ones!
Ended up doing a 90 mile run up to Callander and back over the Dukes Pass and for those that don't know this road it's seriously twisty!
Bike rear end held really well and never bounced like it did with old shock.
Very pleased with the results so just need machined dogbones to swap my homemade ones and think I'll be really happy with my mod.
Now onto my front springs replacement mod