Seized calliper bolt's.....

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Re: Seized calliper bolt's.....

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robracer wrote:Shit if even the experts cant get em to budge, there will be hell to pay :shock:
YEP!!!!

The shop working on it raced one of these for 3 years and never had this issue they couldnt even budge them with a rattle gun :shock: ....The suspicion is loctite if there is I'm gunna be mega pissed off....Changing tyres could end up costing me upward's of $300 by the look's of it :roll:
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If its loctite that hasn't budged from the rattle gun then heat will melt the loctite, you will smell the loctite burn once there's enough heat, for a bolt that size it won't take much from a heat gun :)

There not going the wrong way are they :lol: lefty loosi righti tighti haha
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timmyrocks wrote: lefty loosi righti tighti haha
is that your little chant for work :lol:
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robracer wrote:
timmyrocks wrote: lefty loosi righti tighti haha
is that your little chant for work :lol:
in the shower :lol:
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Disco wrote:The shop working on it raced one of these for 3 years and never had this issue they couldnt even budge them with a rattle gun :shock: ....The suspicion is loctite if there is I'm gunna be mega pissed off....Changing tyres could end up costing me upward's of $300 by the look's of it :roll:
Glad I didnt borrow the wets for PI or ya would of blamed me :lol:
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fireyrob wrote:
robracer wrote:
timmyrocks wrote: lefty loosi righti tighti haha
is that your little chant for work :lol:
in the shower :lol:

yup yup haha, its
funny though how many times i stop and think about which way to go. I do it everyday and have been for the last 7-8yrs and still to this day if im doing a nut up from the bottom (upsidedown so it will be opposite when looking for the top) i have to pause for a second and think haha
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fireyrob wrote:
Disco wrote:The shop working on it raced one of these for 3 years and never had this issue they couldnt even budge them with a rattle gun :shock: ....The suspicion is loctite if there is I'm gunna be mega pissed off....Changing tyres could end up costing me upward's of $300 by the look's of it :roll:
Glad I didnt borrow the wets for PI or ya would of blamed me :lol:
I wouldn't have been able to get them off to give to you :lol: ....

Bolt's are extracted now to get some more by the weekend :kuda:
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Do they still make Penetrene?
That stuff was great for getting seized bolts out :D
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timmyrocks wrote:
fireyrob wrote:
robracer wrote: is that your little chant for work :lol:
in the shower :lol:

yup yup haha, its
funny though how many times i stop and think about which way to go. I do it everyday and have been for the last 7-8yrs and still to this day if im doing a nut up from the bottom (upsidedown so it will be opposite when looking for the top) i have to pause for a second and think haha
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seiko1 wrote:Do they still make Penetrene?
That stuff was great for getting seized bolts out :D
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