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Have you tried to straighten the Mk3 right side footrest/brake cylinder arm? My go to technique is to bolt the bent arm to a large steel plate (3 feet square and 5/8" thick), pack under the arm with a steel wedge (to prevent the arm bending elsewhere) Then bolt a much thicker footpeg in place of the normal one (1" dia steel foot peg) By using a large copper hammer on the footpeg the arm can easily be straightened without damaging the chrome. Done a few like this. I tried the tube on the normal footpeg approach, just bent the footpeg, hence the thicker one. Lefthand side straightened the same way.Bent footrests are a pet hate of mine, even a small bend looks horrible. One Mk3 that came my way had both sides bent in different directions, left side bent up and forwards, right side bent down and back, That looked really awful
Have you tried to straighten the Mk3 right side footrest/brake cylinder arm? My go to technique is to bolt the bent arm to a large steel plate (3 feet square and 5/8" thick), pack under the arm with a steel wedge (to prevent the arm bending elsewhere) Then bolt a much thicker footpeg in place of the normal one (1" dia steel foot peg) By using a large copper hammer on the footpeg the arm can easily be straightened without damaging the chrome. Done a few like this. I tried the tube on the normal footpeg approach, just bent the footpeg, hence the thicker one. Lefthand side straightened the same way.
Bent footrests are a pet hate of mine, even a small bend looks horrible. One Mk3 that came my way had both sides bent in different directions, left side bent up and forwards, right side bent down and back, That looked really awful
