Bolt fell into swingarm

[Canyon-Chaser]

First, this is a crappy design where the shock mount bolt is so small but I digress...

I was removing the shock to have it rebuilt when I was removing the bolt, it fell off the allen wrench and into the deep dark recesses of the swingarm. poking and prodding with a telescoping magnet has resolved nothing.

Surely I'm not the first to do this. There's gotta be a way to extract this bolt.

Any help? Ideas? Please!

Thanks,
dp

[Largerthan9]

You might try a rare earth magnet on the outside of the swingarm and manipulate the bolt back up to the hole to grab with another magnet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_magnet

[buggsz24]

LOL I thought I was the only one on the planet capable (or incapable as it may be) to pull off this feat of idiocy.

In short the only way to get it out was to hot glue a magnet on a piece of flexible plastic and then its just off to fishing. More than likely it fell into the hole and slid toward the hollow cavity on the driver side of the front swing arm cavity.

[freezer16801]

I didn't lose my bolt in there, my allen socket came off of the ratchet extension. I was able to get that sucka out of there with my magnet. I did upgrade my magnet tool with the tiny yet strong as hell magnets from my used up sonicare toothbrush. Maybe that did the trick for me.

[hyperdookie]

Originally Posted by Canyon-Chaser

First, this is a crappy design where the shock mount bolt is so small but I digress...

I was removing the shock to have it rebuilt when I was removing the bolt, it fell off the allen wrench and into the deep dark recesses of the swingarm. poking and prodding with a telescoping magnet has resolved nothing.

Surely I'm not the first to do this. There's gotta be a way to extract this bolt.

Any help? Ideas? Please!

Thanks,
dp

You're not the first and you won't be the last.The swingarm is a black hole! It would be funny to open up one of these swingarms in 40 years after the bike has seen multiple owners.....Jackpot! A Big "don't"
Did the Hyper Eat the Bolt?

[HyperGirl]

OMG.
That is so funny.
My amazingly wonderful friends and I did the same thing a couple of weekends ago while installing the new adjustable linkage!

I guess now it is an authentic and genuine Hyper:
it has a socket in the swingarm

[kedo]

Yo! I am one of those amazingly wonderful friends... LOL Fortunately for us, we didn't lose the bolt, just the allen socket... and AFTER we torqued it! So, we were able to get the bike back together and on the road! I'm still determined to get that sucker outta there!

[jboothe]

Originally Posted by daisyup

OMG.
That is so funny.
My amazingly wonderful friends and I did the same thing a couple of weekends ago while installing the new adjustable linkage!

I guess now it is an authentic and genuine Hyper:
it has a socket in the swingarm

So how did that work out for you? Get height a little more reasonable?

[johnchypermotard]

Originally Posted by hyperdookie

You're not the first and you won't be the last.The swingarm is a black hole! It would be funny to open up one of these swingarms in 40 years after the bike has seen multiple owners.....Jackpot!

i'm pretty certain jimmy hoffa is in one of the east coast (most likely new jersey) hypertard swingarms

[alounacara]

I used my wet dry vac and it sucked it right out