FloppyRunner
Motorcycle Noooooooooooob
I was taking my wheels off before getting new tires and decided I'd take my rotors off as well. Well the allen heads stripped on one of the left front and one of the right front rotors because they're cheap pieces of crap made from soft metal.
They are "shouldered" and "button head" bolts I believe and I assume they need to be that way to pass under parts of the caliper or other bracketry.
Does anybody have any suggestions on where to get replacements in order to avoid:
1) paying a dealer more money
2) having the same thing happen later from using the same crappy bolt
Anyone care to share your experience with this? I know it's happened to a few people. I'd really like to have the bike back and ready this weekend but between this and the disaster involving getting my tires (which I won't go into...)...
I think tomorrow I'll go to the specialty fastener place nearby but I'm not sure if they'll have something just right... I already tried Ace but didn't have much hope to begin with.
I still haven't gotten the two stripped ones off... I think I will see if the guy putting on my tires can take care of it without charging me tons. If that doesn't work I'll think of it as an excuse to buy either a dremel (slot them and use a screwdriver) or a drill (for use with a bolt extractor).
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They are "shouldered" and "button head" bolts I believe and I assume they need to be that way to pass under parts of the caliper or other bracketry.
Does anybody have any suggestions on where to get replacements in order to avoid:
1) paying a dealer more money
2) having the same thing happen later from using the same crappy bolt
Anyone care to share your experience with this? I know it's happened to a few people. I'd really like to have the bike back and ready this weekend but between this and the disaster involving getting my tires (which I won't go into...)...
I think tomorrow I'll go to the specialty fastener place nearby but I'm not sure if they'll have something just right... I already tried Ace but didn't have much hope to begin with.
I still haven't gotten the two stripped ones off... I think I will see if the guy putting on my tires can take care of it without charging me tons. If that doesn't work I'll think of it as an excuse to buy either a dremel (slot them and use a screwdriver) or a drill (for use with a bolt extractor).
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