Help needed with Brembo conversion
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Tourer
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From: central ma
Are the bagger caliper bolts different at all? Or are those the ones you're using? I swapped all of my rotor hardware to black button heads from the stock torx ones. The new bolts were quite a bit thinner than those as well. I was using floating rotors though with recesses not those bagger ones. Also lemme ask a dumb question... there's not actually a recess for the bolts on the flip side of those rotors is there? Like maybe they could have been installed wrong?
And no there's no recess on the other side haha.
So where did you get those black rotor bolts from? Maybe those would give me the room I need.
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Tourer
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From: central ma
Come on man don't leave me hanging! Where'd you get those rotor screws from?
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From: Honah Lee
If you want to do it correct, need to take a hard look at what you us. Harley's fastener appears to be button head but are really not what you are going to see in a button head bolt. If you go to Northern.com you will see button head bolts don not come in a graded bolts for a true fastener like the caliper bolt should be. Note the little raised markings. Think is a grade 5 class fastener off my head.
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**** sorry didn't mean caliper bolts, meant rotor bolts. Doh. Anyways my local hardware place had em in grades 2-8. I used 8's and I just saw the same bolts at an Ace Hardware store last weekend. So they're readily available.
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Tourer
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From: central ma
Haha that's kind of what I figured. Cool I might take a look at a local hardware shop and see what I can find. Grade 8 bolt should be safe to run?
Oh and to answer your question Dyna's and Baggers all run the same rotor bolts. Part number 3655A.
Oh and to answer your question Dyna's and Baggers all run the same rotor bolts. Part number 3655A.
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From: central ma
Wow that's real generous of ya Reindeer. I will keep that in mind for sure.
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From: central ma
Tried to sell my rotors here in the classified section but wasn't getting a lot of interest. So I decided to take my rotors to the machine shop instead. Got them back today and put the wheel back on this afternoon. And I'm happy to say my wheel spins again!! 
DanDMan's measurements were spot on.
Not gonna be able to take it for a test ride for a couple weeks most likely but I'll be sure to update this thread as time goes on and I get some miles on these rotors.
DanDMan's measurements were spot on.
Not gonna be able to take it for a test ride for a couple weeks most likely but I'll be sure to update this thread as time goes on and I get some miles on these rotors.