(19-06-20, 11:31 AM)Gnasher link Wrote: [quote author=darrsi link=topic=26267.msg316576#msg316576 date=1592561132]
[size=1em]Like my rear caliper pad pin you mean? :'(
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I think it's something daft like 10Nm, but i thought i'd do the right thing that day and use the torque wrench, with a tiny dot of Copper Grease on the thread.
Won't be doing that again. :groan
No, can't see why this was a problem. The rear caliper pin threads aren't blind holes, the holes where the pins go through into the other body aren't either. Either the pins are bent, threads knackered due to over tightening, poor servicing or your torque wrench is naff. As with everything you get what you pay for with tools, there're many cheap torque wrenches on the market, plus they need calibrating.
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To be fair when i bought the bike years ago i only paid £800 for it and it was in a very sorry state.
It had basically been used and abused as a toy, which i obviously didn't know at the time, so i don't even want to think about the previous home maintenance that had been done on it.
I slowly worked my way through the whole bike finding and fixing problem after problem and the chances of this particular owner over tightening everything he touched is a massive possibility. So having simple things like a caliper pin strip a thread didn't really surprise me too much as i've found worse things in the past.
To give you an idea what i was dealing with, i changed the oil in the first few days, but i took out 4.5 litres of oil from the sump. :eek
It was that kind of stupidity that started alarm bells ringing straight away. :look
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