Topic: Eye to eye shock conversion

[metric-wrench]

Hi there,
Has anyone converted their eye to clevis mount to accept an eye to eye shock?
It seems like a little welded bracket would do the trick, but there would then be 2 bolts per bottom mount.
Would this be sketchy?
The reason is I have been given some progressive 412 shocks (eye to eye) and I was thinking about trying to mount them on my cb750.
Anyone have any recommendations?
THANKS!!

[mono]

i'm having a hard time picturing what you mean by "two bolts", but my best guess is that it would be best to mod the swingarm to accept the eye-to-eye shock.

EDIT:  on second thought, this would be a bigger PITA, and probably less desirable, than just buying eye-to-clevis progressive shocks.  however, it's just metal, so anything is possible!  i'm sure someone else here has already seen/done it and will give you a real answer lol.

[metric-wrench]

Thanks mono,
I'm thinking that I could bolt an H shaped bracket to the mount on the swing arm then just mount the eye into that with another bolt.
Would this be something unsafe?  Im thinking that if the bracket and bolts are tough enough it shouldnt be a problem.
If anyone sees this as an issue please set me straight...
The shocks were free, but Im not about to risk my safety for $300.00

[mono]

i thought that's what you were driving at.

i see 2 reasons that this would not work too well:

1.  if you bolt a bracket to the swingarm, and then bolt the shock to the bracket, you're creating an extra pivot point (like a link in your chain, the center bracket could flop around) -- welding the new bracket would be the only way to go, i think.

2. it would make the shock "longer, which would change the angles on the bike and potentially impact handing.

[cavi]

I agree, the bracket would deffinitly act as a pivot and might end up moving causing all sorts of undesired effects.  I would not do it.