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	With the strut as a template it was easy to mark the holes. In retrospect I should have moved them down a quarter of an inch to make the internal backing plate i made fit better but it was no real killer. as you can see I am drilling a pilot hole with a smaller drill. I than follow with the 5/16 drill. You can see the forward hole is already done. A cordless drill with a keyless chuck is a real pleasure. My Makita works good but the charger is lousy-- it wont keep the batteries "floated and topped of and now it is making a terrible buzz. I design battery chargers for a living so this kind of sets me off.
	Here we see the bag mounted with it's new holes. I checked out that there would be room for the crash bag between the shock and the bag and that the chain-gaurd would clear the bag even when the swing arm was fully up from a heavy load or a big bump. You can see the front bolt misses the reinforcing plate but we'll fix that in a bit.
	Time to make the left bag like the right one. It's pretty easy to match the two sides up when you lay them out like this. Same deal-- a small pilot hole that you can keep on location as you drill followed by a 5/16 slow and gentle to not rip up the fiberglass.

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