After doing much research on here before taking the plunge I figured that some owners had tyre inner side wall rubbing issues and some didn't. Maybe I'd be lucky. It turns out that I'm not but there you go. Yer pays yer money....
Anyway, that's not the reason for the post. The bars are the Mulfab ones and before fitment I was sure to follow Cain's excellent fitting guide on his webpage. Unfortunately not well enough as it turns out.
You see - I've mounted them with the bar sandwiched between the oiler bolt and the top and bottom lube bolt washers thus:

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If I'd studied Cain's instructions in greater detail I would see that he has the bar mounted directly on top of the shock absorber bracket underneath the lube washers thus:

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'Bugger' was my initial thought because in order to change my arrangement to match Cain's photo would result in a 6mm (ish) drop in the bar which would mean that the chassis bolt hole for the bar would now be in the wrong position and I certainly don't want to drill more holes in the chassis so close to the ones I'd just created. Further more, this drop would also result in the bar moving outboard further and further restrict the wheel lock. Quandary!

So I took to the forum and saw some pictures that Dave W had posted up which included the top mounting arrangement of his reaction bars - which is the same as mine:

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So - have I made a major blunder in which case I'll remove the bars and pretend it never happened or should I stop fretting because it doesn't really matter? I do take some comfort in the thought that if it's good enough for Dave then it will be good enough for me grin2


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