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Can someone measure their forward controls brake rod???

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Old 06-21-2016, 04:00 PM
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Default Can someone measure their forward controls brake rod???

So I bought a forward controls kit on eBay from Custom Chrome (thats the manufacturer). What a total @*#(@&$*$&# POS it is.

Can someone please measure the brake rod on their forward controls? It should run from the master cyclender up to the brake pedal.

Eyelet to eyelet, the one supplied in my kit is 20 3/8 inches. My guess is all of yours is going to be 18 3/8s.....
 
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Also does anyone know what type of force this brake rod is under? I could unscrew the eyelets from the rod iself and screw them onto some threaded rod but its a pretty small diametere. I would be worried about ti failing.
 
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18 3/8 is correct sir
 
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I think I'd trust cutting 2" out and welding before a piece of all thread.
 
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I knew it. Never buy anything from Custom Chrome. This kit was total horse ****.

Its a 2" extended kit so the shifter side it moves the shifter and peg forward 2". On the brake side it only moves the peg forward 2" not the brake. Thats weird for 1, but 2, they lengthened the brake rod 2" even thought the brake lever hasn't moved!!! So have they seriously never come across this before??? Am I the only one who has ever bought this kit?? They never installed it to see if it worked!?!?!

Other than that, I had to drill out those little spring washers for the foot pegs to install because the holes didnt line up with the clevis mount.

AND I had to grind down the one clevis an 1/8" so that the locking ring could fit in the groove. Either the pin was too short or the clevis too wide.

3 Big issues in one little kit. and it took 10 days to ship to me. WTF
 
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