Originally Posted by klhansen
Ron, it was probably me that misunderstood.

Looking at your middle picture, are the two bolts straddling the safety catch opening the ones that are hitting? If I recall correctly, those bolts on mine were pan head with clutch driver slots, which would be a little less proud than the hex heads with rim that your bolts appear to be ( a little hard to tell.)

Yes! Even though the FAM shows 4 of the 120834 bolts ( hex head cap screws 5/16-18 x 11/16 ) with the external toothed washers....seems to me that what you described is what I removed. I contacted Jim Carter and they opened up a package of their "kit" and measured the thickness of the bumpers and advised 1/2" . I ordered them and I'll install them when they get here and do the notebook paper shim test and provide feedback. If that doesn't fix it, I'll switch to the pan head bolts. For reasons I don't understand, I've gotten on this originality kick and lost my "whatever works". Thanks for the help Kevin, much appreciated.

Ron - - Dusty53
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