How far out does the upper arm jut from the lower? On mine it wasn't
too far. Like maybe 2 -3 mm?

My guess is that you may be able to repair the part.

I can't find thesamba.com thread right now, but there's a thread
showing images of repairs to the arm assembly at pivot point. It
shouldn't cost too much to have a weldor weld in a piece of tube. eg
in place of the copper I used shown here (an intentional attempt at an
"everyman" repair. In hindsight, should have welded in new steel):

http://tinyurl.com/mrkmm29
http://tinyurl.com/nrtrvlu

On 3/22/14, Jonce Fancher <streetbugs@frontier.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I would like to replace my OR figure a way to repair my forward
> supports with cross bar.
>
> I have the cross bar and the supports and it works BUT it is wearing
> out on the passenger side. You can see the miss alignment in the
> supports and it is leaving black grindy metal on the knee joint. Like
> that description?? Grindy sounds like a half pipe skate board term.

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