Saturday, 14 September 2013

Not So Good Rear Brake Torque Arm Bolt

Checking over the rear brake as I was putting it back together and I looked to me like the PO had substituted a different kind of bolt on the caliper torque arm.  I am not engineer but even I understand that this bolt is going to be subject to a significant amount of shear under full braking.  Would you trust a regular bolt from a hardware store?  No neither would I.  So I stole the bolt from my other GS1100 project and bought a new one to put on that one.

 The one on the right is more likely to hold - don't you think?



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