The eye on the bottom is off set to one side and is not perpendicular to the shock body. The oem shocks are not like this, as far as I could tell. When I initially installed these I put them on how I thought they went, which is just opposite of the pic below.
I had installed a different final drive at the same time and the axle bolt was hitting the right side muffler. That was a red flag but I thought I had the wrong final drive. I'll skip past that story right now.
So now I have the bike tore apart again. I still think the final drive is too far over to the right. So I tried switching the shocks around to see what happens. I really couldn't tell which way the shocks are supposed to go. No matter which way I installed them I could not get the swing arm to shift over. I also checked the swing arm bushings with nothing attached to it. It had no movement.
I have a sidecar. While working on this I had the bike on the center stand and a jack under the mounting bracket for the sidecar. After putting it all back together I lowered the jack. I heard something pop. I thought stuff was going back into alignment? Or the jack popping on the frame?
I did ride the bike around the neighborhood like this but really couldn't tell anything. But now that I have it on the ground and took this pic I can say this does not look right to me. I think I had it right the first time.
Which way does the off set go? Both sides to the inside, outside, one in, one out? Please help,,,,lol.