Thanks for the posts and links. When I hit the photos though, they take me to the G503 website where I need a password to view your album.
I saved the photos to my computer and they expand reasonably well. I also already have saved the photo from Gerry Greer's site as it was the closest I could find to what I have here. There seems to be a variation to the two upper shackle bolts on this bike. Rather than a bolt, this one has a long rod that is threaded for a short bit on one end, and a longer length on the other end, which will be for the one threaded shackle. I made the jam nuts, but I guess my main query was on the size and quantity of spacers and or thrust washers. I see there are no thrust washers used, but two spacers at the rear upper shackle bolt (or rod in my case).
Or does it? Your parts diagram shows item #34 (pn 42616) spacer as being on the forward bolt, but then lists it as belonging to the lower link. Because the manual does not offer the quantity used per equipment, it is hard to determine if the bike just uses two or 4 of these.
I am certainly closer to assembling this correctly than I was before, so thank you.
The bike had been disassembled by a well meaning volunteer a couple of years ago, who left before completing the job. Since then, the bike went to the base workshop, where it also sat for a long time before we finally retrieved it back. So in it's journeys a few parts seem to have been waylaid.
Unfortunately, this is too common in the museum. I have about a dozen vehicles which have been left in various states of partial disrepair. The parts then seem to move with the tide to various other parts of the building, or put into boxes or containers and join the thousands of other boxes and containers on shelves and corners. At times, the job seems more like a game show where you see a letter turn over, and have to remember where you saw the other one just like it. Fortunately I am pretty good at that game.
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