front brake caliper bolts

[using water]

the caliper plate to upright bolts should these have a shank on ?

Reason for asking. Some thing started to knock today so had a quick look round and
Osf calipercould be moved up and down ! Drove home v slow then tryed to remove them
Cos they were tight they both snapped great joy at 930 at night quick waft of the gas axe sorted them
But no shank just thread so replaced with some shanked ones
What should be there as STD
Cos that worryed me and the other side look the same and were seized so I gave up

[HRG]

They are bolts, not set screws, ie. shanked. Got some in the garage I can measure if you need to know the std length.

[using water]

they were set screws with a spring washer
But they were all thread and the thread had warn and caused the caliper to rattle
The only car calipers I have ever used were ap racing and they were fitted with a shanked bolts ie half thread half plain shaft

[GreenV8S]

They shouldn't have been fitted with screws, but perhaps the factory had run out of bolts that day.

[using water]

Think I better change them all are they just a ford bolt then

[ray_von]

Both my TVR's have been fitted with screws not bolts