FFS...it's never easy is it?!
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The bolts on GSXR's are fking crap.
If you have cheap sockets that won't help matters ( they never fit very well ) Even with my snap on ones I've rounded a few bolts on mine.
Don't think mole grips will get a calliper bolt out or you have room to shock it. If you can't do those weld a nut on the end of the bolt = bingo
If you have cheap sockets that won't help matters ( they never fit very well ) Even with my snap on ones I've rounded a few bolts on mine.
Don't think mole grips will get a calliper bolt out or you have room to shock it. If you can't do those weld a nut on the end of the bolt = bingo
barker22 said:
I have an impact driver for stuff like this, its great. Even when it starts chewing with a socket, usually the impact driver gets it free with a good tap.
Same as that.As someone who has been spannering my own cars and bikes for the last 25 years, I have developed a keen 'sixth-sense' for fasteners which will potentially cause me problems similar to the OP's situation, in advance of me even addressing the fastener with a tool.
I have to say, bike brake caliper bolts are a known PITA, along with many others.
For these and other fasteners on my black list, I don't ever even try and get a tool on there and start to apply pressure in the first place. I can see the thing chewing and rounding, in my mind's eye, well before that
Like barker above, I just go straight in with an Impact Driver. I have a lovely, accurate and precise Snap-On impact driver, which provides just the right amount of persuasion and motility, bereft of fastener-rounding shenanigins...
Going straight in with this impact driver, usually renders the fastener compliant after a few good whacks with my plastic shot-filled dead-blow mallet, without any damage to the fastener at all.
I might recommend a similar approach to all of you guys!
Had a (original) 750cc Triumph once, and a previous owner had chewed up the sump plug (The thread was OK)..we tried everything, to no avail, so ended up taking the engine out, turning it upside down on a bench in a bus garage, (My brother in law was a bus driver) and welding a socket onto it.....came off no trouble.
Never again........:0
Never again........:0
anonymous said:
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The shock helps to loosen the bolt. I'm not sure if you will have enough room to use one though. If I remember correctly you don't have a lot of room or I didn't on my K7 I can't remember if I turned the wheel or not though.
It depends on how rounded the bolt is if it will work for you to.
Yamaha insist on using locktite on the rear caliper slider pins on my bike, so needless to say, when I needed to fit new pads, could you fk get them out, ended up rounding off the inside of the hex head, as it was so thin from the hex head to the actual threads, ended up having to drill the heads, and use easy outs while tapping the rear of the pins using a punch. Needless to say ever since, like fk have I put locktite on the slider pins when changing the pads, don't give a fk if it's in the service book to use locktite, I use it at my work, and it's not needed for this, I just keep an eye on the bolts when washing and it's been fine ever since without it.
I know they come in different levels, think they must have used the hulk strength one on the slider pins for some reason, I can understand the need for it, as some people won't care and never check anything, but for my ease and the fact I know to check it regularly, and that the slider pins are so thin material wise, I just left it off.
theshrew said:
I took my callipers off today just to give them a clean up general maintenance.
Couple of the bolts started to slightly round when putting them back on. Where the fk do Suzuki buy this rubbish from.
Tbh it's a great bike to ride but I've never seen build quality this poor
Are you using a torque wrench, did you remove the old lock tight compound before putting them back in and are you using sockets with 6 flats or one with 12 or more?Couple of the bolts started to slightly round when putting them back on. Where the fk do Suzuki buy this rubbish from.
Tbh it's a great bike to ride but I've never seen build quality this poor
I only ask as if the bolts have just started to round off then they were put in in the first place correctly without damage. They may be made of cheese but I guess they're up to the job if suzuki got them in in the first place without damage.
Regards,
Mark
Anyone else remember the 1980s, when all bike engines seemed to be assembled using Philips-head M6 screws in a huge range of lengths so that exactly the right screw had to go back in every position, and because they passed through so much alloy they'd invariably corrode into the engine. You'd hit them with an impact driver and the head would shear off, leaving 80% of the screw welded into its bore...
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