Originally Posted by
Gruntled
Hi everyone, I'm in the middle of installing a Voyager kit on my 96 Gl1500 Aspencade. I've run into a problem with the left axle bracket. Out of the box, the axle hole was too small for the fat end of the axle to pass through, so I enlarged it by about 1mm and that was enough. I removed the spacer between the caliper bracket and the swingarm per instructions (it fell out by itself). After reinstalling the axle with the newly enlarged hole and tightening the axle nut to the prescribed 80 ft-lbs, the axle bracket has a small amount of end play (same direction as axle). The upper brace for the bracket is clamped to the swingarm per instructions. The removed spacer is 3mm wide, the axle bracket is 7mm wide. I'm convinced the problem is connected to the width difference somehow.
I called MTC Voyager and talked to their Tech about the hole sizing problem. He said the holes are cut by water jet by their supplier and now and then they mess up. Problems are usually caught by the end user.
Has anyone else run into this problem? I'm not going to finish installation until I get the end play problem resolved.