Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Handbrake mounting

I was going to use standard M8 bolts (not like M6 as it says in the manual) but that would make a large buldge under the carpet on the LHS. A couple of builders have used rivnuts but I'd already drilled the holes. Instead I found some M8 X 70M coutersunk bolts on eBay for £2.90.

These fitted great but the heads were ~13mm across and my countersink bit was only 10mm. Mike managed to borrow a larger countersing bit:


It all looked very neat when finished:

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