The Chopper Compendium

After 4 years of tinkering on a Softail build for longer travel, I finally got her on the road. Put about 100 miles on her last weekend, but found I had broken a rear shock bolt.
sheared it clean off in the swingarm.

Any of you seen this before. The other 3 bolts were still tight and loc-tited. my gut tells me it was a bad bolt, but always like to cover my bases.

It was a blast to ride while it lasted. Smoothest, and plushest Softail I have ever rode. This 114 Demon w/ 2.91 final drive just purrs @ 70 in 5th gear at 2600 rpms.
first 100-115 miles only used 1.1/2 gallons during break in too. Motor pulls well, even though I haven't had it over 3500 rpms yet.

thanks!!

ya ive seen a couple of those they can be a real bitch to get out sometimes i dont kno if its bad bolts or bad design i also wonder if its because one shock is doing more of the work takeing more stress

Got the broken bolt out. heated loc-tited area w/ a heatgun, didnt want to screw up the powdercoating.
the other 3 bolts were tight still. re-tapped all the holes, all new bolts, and torqued to 105#.

I did see the shocks were slightly different in length, less than 0.050", but dead-nutz now.

hope to roll tomm!

Thanks!