Front brake res help! Please!

[yorkie_chris]

Got some little stainless bolts kicking about here if you want, tapping it round with a small punch is likely to be most effective. Or alternatively dremeling a slot into the head of it.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Got some little stainless bolts kicking about here if you want, tapping it round with a small punch is likely to be most effective. Or alternatively dremeling a slot into the head of it.

cool do you know what size they are? Also do you think it would be ok riding it with 1 screw into work as im hoping i could pick something up at lunch, if i can get the old one out

What about superglueing a small bolt to the top of the broken screw? As long as you were careful not to glue it to the cover itself......

Originally Posted by simesb

What about superglueing a small bolt to the top of the broken screw? As long as you were careful not to glue it to the cover itself......

yea well ive knackered whats left to a pointy stump now so i dont think im going to be able to glue anything to it.

[yorkie_chris]

D'oh.

Be reet with one in it yes.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by AndyBrad

yea well ive knackered whats left to a pointy stump now so i dont think im going to be able to glue anything to it.

Lol.

Sorry, I know it's not funny, but your turn of phrase made me giggle

Originally Posted by Lissa

Lol.

Sorry, I know it's not funny, but your turn of phrase made me giggle

glad i can be of service.


Still not got the bloody thing out. Ideas appart from drilling it?

[yorkie_chris]

If there's just a stump stuck up out of main casting then possibly weld something to it carefully, or take m/c off and grip screw in vice.

Manage to get hold of it at dinner with some mole grips. Slowly turning it then PING its now flush with the alloy. ********!!!

So ive ordered a second hand one off ebay so i can swap it out while i drill the origial one out. Ill be using some stainless screws in the new one so while im at it is there anything else i can change to stainless while im at it? A nice list would be good with sizes so we can sticky it and stop others having the same problems?

Originally Posted by AndyBrad

A nice list would be good with sizes so we can sticky it and stop others having the same problems?

A list wouldn't have helped you not butcher the screw. An impact driver or the correct size screwdriver would have, especially as you never got the old one out anyway. Stainless will still corrode to a degree, so use a little blob of copperslip or grease on the threads before putting the bolts/screw back in.