So the ground eyelets are going to be that large or step the bolt size down to a 6mm bolt and place the star washer against fender washer kind of sizes so the 6mm bolt does not fly thru the hole.
Ya, I guess you wouldn't need the threads of the 6mm bolt to contact the threads in the frame as long as you used one of those star serrated washers to make contact. The bolt head could stay on the inside of the battery box, the ground nut would hold it all tight on the outside. Only problem would be the 6mm bolt would spin if you ever wanted to remove the ground nut. You'd have to pull the battery and hold the head of the bolt while you turned the nut.
I think I like the idea of sticking with the 8mm bolt and going with a larger ground eye. That way, I could torque the bolt to about 10 ft lbs and it should stay put when I loosen the ground nut on the outside because that won't be torqued. The fairing nut will not be much more than hand tight.
Now, are you saying you want to drill that bolt so as to replace the fairing? The fairing hole is where that ground bolt is now?
Not quite. The fairing bolt hole on the left is in that cone shape. The cone shape bolts against the subframe. I'm removing the subframe permanently. SO, no more subframe, no bolt hole, no place to attach the side fairing. I plan to make a fairing extension out of polymer clay. It gets hard as a rock when you bake it in an oven. The fairing extension will have a bolt hole and it will attach to the frame where the subframe was attached. I can make the hole in the fairing extension any size I want. I would just prefer a smaller size since that seems more appropriate for a fairing ...and a small ground wire.
Then, say we have this scenario. I would extend the 6mm bolt so I have a 6mm nut to protrude thru the fairing and I use a 6mm nylock nut to hold the fairing in place, yes?
That's what I had planned. The bolt is long enough to hold a ground tongue and ground bolt and there is still just enough length to hold about 4-5mm thickness of fairing with a wingnut holding it all down. I was thinking of using a grommet in the hole of the fairing extension so the fastener would not vibrate loose. It would work sort of like a well nut. The nylock is a simpler idea.
Looks like I have a lot to think about. I'll probably go with the least esoteric solution to all of these problems. Stay with a regular 8mm bolt. Maybe use a nylock but I like the grommet idea. If it weren't for my need for a ground here, I could just thread the bolt from outside and use blue LokTite.
Thanks for another round of great ideas, Hub.
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