[Bearwolf]

I am going to try to rebuild one with the old tube, if I can find it. I'm sure I put it in a box somewhere. In an act of foolishness I ended up thinking I wouldn't need them seeing the rebuild kit from xks.com came with new ones. I actually took one of the old tubes to the band saw to make myself a spacer to take up the empty section of rod while setting preload, and I really wish I wouldn't have.

I pulled the outer fulcrums apart today and inspected the tubes and they are actually deformed on one end now (the end that I stacked the shims on. I'm guessing the metal used for the repo peices is too soft. This has also seemed to have taken a toll on the shims. If I ever end up doing this again I'm definatly just reusing the tubes. I guess my options now are find an old one and measure it to have some harder peices made. Or I'll talk to ERA tomorrow and see where they get theirs if they replace them.