After letting the paint dry, the new bracket bolted up perfectly and looked pretty good. It cleared everything and getting the bracket bolted to the mount was pretty easy.
The next step was to hook up the bobble strut, so I grabbed the relocation bracket and the bobble and went to town. First, the remains of the solid bobble had to be extracted, and then the bobble had to be adjusted slightly since the k-member bracket had gotten a little pinched. All that was great, but when I went to bolt everything up, it didn’t fit. Turns out the motor is in the wrong damned place thanks to the front mount. In retrospect, it seems pretty obvious that I should have put the bobble strut in first and then measured and made the front bracket, but it didn’t really occur to me that the angle of the motor would much matter with the bobble. Maybe if I were using round steel instead of the actual bobble the space wouldn’t be a problem, but in any case this isn’t going to work.
So back to grinding and cutting.
With those cuts done, the bracket now fits against the core support, but there’s a new problem:
The bolt hole is completely out of alignment now.
That means that I need to add some material to the bracket and re-drill the bolt hole. I’m thinking that I’ll overlap some bar stock on the outside of the bracket and use that overlap to weld up more flat bar that abuts the existing arm. The left side of the bracket will be a little more difficult since the corner is in the way a bit, but I should be able to figure that out as well.
For now, I think I can modify what I already have instead of starting over, but it would have been really nice to be moving on to the next thing instead of doing this thing a second time.