My new harness arrived yesterday and I thought it would be a nice easy swap as I've removed and refitted the old ones before. Well of course it turned out to be a pain up the 🙆🏻.
On my old harnesses the "top hat" piece that allows the harness mount to rotate sits proud of the harness mount but the ones that came with the new harness don't seem to be tall enough and once the bolt is tightened the harness mount will not rotate. I could live with that as I used the old top hats except that one of them has obviously been crushed a bit from repeated tightening.
1) The manual says tighten to 45lbft but that seems to start to crush the top hat pieces - is that part of the design or is the torque too high?
2) Should the top hat pieces always be replaced?
3) Can someone who has fitted a recent harness tell me whether the top hat pieces sit proud of the harness mount?
4) What order should the washers, etc. go? I had them as bolt head, plain washer, harness mount, crinkle washer, top hat but the manual I have shows bolt head, plain washer, crinkle washer, harness mount, top hat. If I use the order from the manual, the crinkle washer can easily be caught between the harness mount and the plain washer.
I will or course call Caterham later but forewarned is forearmed.
Yellow SL #32