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Old May 27, 2010 | 01:18 AM
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I am just in the proess of fitting new brake pads to my 2008 Fatboy but I am struggling to identify the very small star bolt size that is the pad pin on the rear caliper. Ive tried AF and metric but with no luck. On the metric side it seems to fall just between 6 and 7 mm. It is seems so small compared to the usual star bolt size that you meet on the HD calipers but I don't want to damage it forcing something near onto it.

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Old May 27, 2010 | 01:44 AM
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It's a 12 point socket. Not a star. It's too late for me to go digging in the tools to find out what size but when I did mine I ended up going to Sears to get the one I needed.
 
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Try a 10mm socket or box end wrench.
 
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the large mounting bolts are 10mm but the small ones are 12 point 1/4 inch, sears
 
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