Cloverleaf
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No probs. From memory the lower shock bolts were M8x100 (or similar) shouldered metric. Yeah, way to go bike industry, you just mix metric and imperial threads on the same bike! I found the lower ones to bend a little but as long as you're using a solid one piece steel pin you'll be fine. The older top hat style things would bend and snap so many bolts. I can't recall exactly what you needed to do to fit a 5th on the one you have but I seem to remember it including grinding the top of the boomerang to clear the adjusters and putting a dent in the underside of the tower to clear the top of the piggyback on bottom out. They were designed around the boggo Fox Van RC at the time.I have some spare hardware from my gen 1 Tracer that looks like it will fit the pivot bolts - there are already a few mismatched ons in there that look terrible. I'll have to sort out the shock mounting hardware when I source a shock. Thanks for the info Cloverleaf, that's helpful. The lower shock mount hardware must be huge, the linkage is really wide there.
ETA: The four swinglink bolts were definitely smaller, and the FSR link bolt at the back a bit bigger. Maybe that one was 1/4" and the others were 7/16"? It was a long time ago I had that bike!