23-07-14, 04:02 PM
(22-07-14, 07:25 PM)VNA link Wrote:Quote:.... I may go one step further and drill the heads and pair wire them in as extra security.......By the way I wouldn't use loctite, I do the opposite I stick a tiny smear of copper ease as things get hot down there and I wanna know I'll be able to pop my calliper off again...
I really, really would not recommend greasing up brake bolts. Apart from the obvious reason that you have already mentioned of screwing up the torque, or the fact that you are now throwing three different metals into contact in a hot and cold environment, begging the corrosion issues that entails, it doesn't make any sense because the important thing here is not that you can lossen them easily at a later time, it is that they do not lossen for any reason without deliberate effort! Nor would I suggest that weakening the bolts that hold your brakes on by drilling holes in them couild be considered a good idea either.
When you use clean, grease free bolts in clean, grease free mountings with a decent dab of loctite and tighten to the correct torque, then the loctite will do its job and prevent vibration and heat cycles from lossening the bolt, while also provideing an anerobic seal which prevents the ingress of air, water, salt and other oxidisers, so reduceing corrosion. And the fact that you have used the correct torque means the bolt will not be stretched or damaged which in turn means it will come lose when the appropriate lossening torque is applied.
The reason most people do it this way is because it is simple and it works.