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Shite quality disc bolts - Rexr - 12-01-15
Well there's one thing u can rely on with Yamaha and that's their shite quality standard disc bolts, I think their made of fecking cheese and why use different ones on the back (in fact beefier ones on the back) where's the fecking sense, I can see the drills coming out this week, if the heat and torx bits don't work........rant over for now lol ggggrrrrrr.........
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - slimwilly - 12-01-15
So is it worth attempting to take mine out,57 plate FZ1s , to refit then and know they will move ????
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - JoeRock - 12-01-15
(12-01-15, 08:10 PM)slimwilly link Wrote: So is it worth attempting to take mine out,57 plate FZ1s , to refit then and know they will move ????
Yes. But don't try it without an impact bolt. Probably worth replacing them with titanium whilst you're at it - about £35 a full set off eBay!
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - slimwilly - 12-01-15
OK, there's a challenge, oh and any reccomendations on refitting, i.e ,,dry..with grease,,threadlock , paint ?
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - JoeRock - 12-01-15
(12-01-15, 09:10 PM)slimwilly link Wrote: OK, there's a challenge, oh and any reccomendations on refitting, i.e ,,dry..with grease,,threadlock , paint ?
If you do get titanium, i'd definitely recommend some copper grease, otherwise they will dry weld themselves to your wheel, and you'll never get the bastards out. Just a little bit, and make sure if you torque them up you drop about 30% off the torque value to account for the grease!
Then just check them every now and again - I've never had any come loose due to the above, but better late than sorry!
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - Rexr - 13-01-15
(12-01-15, 08:52 PM)JoeRock link Wrote: [quote author=slimwilly link=topic=15713.msg179925#msg179925 date=1421089832]
So is it worth attempting to take mine out,57 plate FZ1s , to refit then and know they will move ????
Yes. But don't try it without an impact bolt. Probably worth replacing them with titanium whilst you're at it - about £35 a full set off eBay!
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The rears came out nae bother and I've got a full set of titanium to replace them......I had the same issues with my xjr.......
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - Tmation - 13-01-15
You should use a semi permanent thread lock when fitting disc bolts, not copper grease. If you buy new Yamaha ones you will see some blue stuff in the threads, I can't remember the loctite equivalent off the top of my head.
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - JoeRock - 13-01-15
(13-01-15, 05:06 AM)Tmation link Wrote: You should use a semi permanent thread lock when fitting disc bolts, not copper grease. If you buy new Yamaha ones you will see some blue stuff in the threads, I can't remember the loctite equivalent off the top of my head.
And that's the stuff that locks down hard over time and makes them a right bugger to get out!
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - fazer390 - 13-01-15
I've spent the last 2 weekends stripping, polishing and painting my wheels on my gen 1. Surprisingly I didn't get any real problems removing the disc bolts; I was obviously lucky...
I have replaced them however with Stainless bolts from Ebay knowing I'd get issues with the old cheese bolts in the future!
Getting new tyres fitted this afternoon and I can't wait to get the wheels back on the bike later... :-)
Re: Shite quality disc bolts - Rexr - 13-01-15
Well with a bit of heat they came out very easy (bang in a torx bit take it back out and heat the bolt up for about 30 seconds and insert the torx bit and undo....
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Re: Shite quality disc bolts - Tmation - 13-01-15
The front and rears come out easy with a bit of heat and an impact wrench, you need that to break/soften the loctite.
Appliance of science and nearly 40 years of doing stuff like that
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