Odd play in suspension link

Immediately after aquiring my new-to-me '06 200 I tore down the suspension to evaluate the bearings and make sure I had enough grease in there. Had to replace the swingarm bearings, but everything else seemed tight.

Until I got it back together!

Upon reassembly I could easily feel a bit of play in the system when I tried to move the swingarm up and down. It was quite visible once I looked at the right spot- there was obvious slop in the pivot where the link connects to the frame.

"Crap," I thought. "Shoulda replaced those, too...." Now I'm not so sure!

This is the link:



And this is where the play is:



The fit of the pivot bolt to the ID of the sleeve is sloppy!

Neither the pivot bolt nor the sleeve look particularly hammered on, but there's ~.5-.75mm of motion possible between them. WTF, over?

They really don't look worn, and I can't imagine that the ID of the sleeve or the OD of the pivot bolt would change that much and not have it be visible *before* the bearings got pounded to death.

I'm going to try and shim it in some way; it's definitely not proper!

Longtime- I'd really like to hear back about what you find. I've also put up a similar post in the TT suspension forum.

It was tight, but it wasn't tight enough. It's a hard fastener to get torque onto, but the frame ears will clamp down on the sleeve.