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3rd gen Rear Cowl Bolt Mystery

1 posts Started 24 Nov 2016 Last recovered post 24 Nov 2016 Wayback Machine snapshot 8 Jul 2017

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I've had the rear cowl off of my FP for a few months while I mess about with the rear suspension mods, and now that I'm moving on to the rear subframe stuff (e.g., running a modified wiring harness around the back of it, rather than through the middle), I've been mounting and dis-mounting it a lot.  But this puzzles me:

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That's the OEM shouldered M6 lower cowl bolt, which screws into the passenger footpeg hanger through a rubber grommet retained in the cowl.  But the shoulder is 9.5mm OD and the ID of the grommet is easily 12mm, so it moves around quite a bit.  Is that right? 

Cheers,

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