New owners and previous work done

New owners need to be aware of what has been done to their new purchase and if by a garage or DIY. see the photos below.

New purchase, in fact a top zed in real nice condition but the rear suspension banging like big drum, in fact a really big drum!

Check ou the first two pics. they show the shock absorber top and mounts, (the loose nut is not connected to the issue I had started to undo it before taking the pics) the amount of thread showing was excessive and pointed to a problem.

The next pic. shows some nice after market springs in quite new condition like the shocks, maybe this points to why there is a problem? someone been here

The next pic. shows the top again but concentrating on the bush and how it sits ......just looks wrong.

The next pics show the spring removed from the shock, the nut, washers etc. are all in the order they where fitted.

Now all is clear in the last pic. a new shock and the associated rubber stoppers and adapter plates

( different between UK and Jap. spec) all in the correct order.

Clearly the adapter plate was missing, this is the support for the intermediate bushing, without this the rubber mounting has been forced down the shaft and past the adapter plate support stop, interestingly there is a spurious unknown rubber bush it purpose is anyone's guess??

The shock absorber shaft had been displaced upwards and the top mount washer was banging on the body as can be seen how close it is in pic. one, of course the noise was not the problem the compromise on the fitting was, things like this give DIY a bad name.