48 bar mounts...

...so its the age old thing with springers....you need to keep that top clamp and mount attached which has pinch bolts but you need to be able to mount bars better than dogbones and all that excess stuff...so i had these old mounts around and turned them down as you can see with the one on the right...they will slide down into the fork tubes and sit flush or slightly over the top clamp...then i put a cut in each fork tube with the grinder so that the pinch bolt on the top clamp will also compress the fork tube slightly onto these turned down mounts...all interference fit mind you so pretty tight.

i had to widen the bars slightly but im thinking its gonna work just fine....i will leave the ears on the top clamp until i decide if thats the way ill stay with it...

ill post some picks of the finished product in a couple of days.