Rear caliper brace thing

[bren]

Hi all.
I've had my 09 apart over the winter to have tyres etc done I've put the rear back in bolted the caliper back on and done the brace up but when I look to the back of the swing arm to the brace bolt area there's a gap that looks like it should have a spacer in it.
I don't recall one coming out when I removed the wheel.
Have I lost an important part or am I being a pillock and it needs to run back and forth on the shaft?
Many thanks gor any help.
Bren

 

[atomsplitter]

Pictures might help. There is a spacer between the wheel and caliper carrier.

 

[bren]

Sorry pics not that good.
Its the bolt that stops the carrier(thank you for the word it wouldn't come to me earlier) spining when the rear brake is applied.
The bolt is through but just looks like something is missing. I don't have any extra spacers in the little nut and bolt box from doing the work.
Many thanks
Bren

 

[atomsplitter]

It may be the torque reaction bolt you're trying to describe.

 

[bren]

It may be the torque reaction bolt you're trying to describe.

Maybe. Spindle goes through the wheel and brake carrier come forward from spindle bolt goes through swing arm in to hole on carrier but I have 1/2 inch gap between the swing arm and carrier.
It maybe correct but it looks wrong to me.

 

[atomsplitter]

This is a torque reaction bolt:

 

[oteczdmitriy]

Maybe. Spindle goes through the wheel and brake carrier come forward from spindle bolt goes through swing arm in to hole on carrier but I have 1/2 inch gap between the swing arm and carrier.
It maybe correct but it looks wrong to me.

It correct

 

[bren]

Hi thank you for the confirmation.
So just to be 100% the gap between carrier and swing arm is correct?
Theres no spacer or anything to go in there?
I know I'm going on but it just looks, well I've not seen it done that way before it's alien to me.

 

[atomsplitter]

Page 15.22 of the shop manual states: "Release and discard the torque reaction bolt from the caliper carrier, collecting the spacer from between the wheel and caliper carrier." The spacer shown in the diagram is on the wheel spindle (axle), not the reaction bolt. The bolt is there to take the braking force applied to the caliper carrier. As long as there isn't any gap to slam the carrier against the reaction bolt it should be fine.

 

[Kevin frazier]

If looking at reaction bolt there is a gap. No spacer for reaction bolt. Ofcourse axle has a spacer. This picture is reaction bolt and carrier gap. Normal