I can't wait to see the pix so I can get my head around exactly what you did. I think I understand but not sure. I have 2 older bikes an 04 BA and an 04 SM. 25,000 on my SM now not sure exactly what is on Wendy's BA now but either one could have this failure and I don't have thousands to fix it.

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