Do I need New longer bolts with new Riser?

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Mar 25, 2012 | 04:22 PM

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Do I need New longer bolts with new Riser?

Gents, I am thinking about swapping my stock 6" risers for a 8" billet round style. Can I use my "old" riser bolts with the new risers? Or can I just slap some new blue locktite on and call it a day? What are you guy torquing them to also ?

Mar 25, 2012 | 04:27 PM

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If it were me, I would clean up the threads with a brush to get the old loctite off then reapply new loctite and reinstall. I have never had any issues and I do it all the time. Don't know what the exact torque spec is though, sorry.

Mar 25, 2012 | 04:40 PM

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Gud n tite

Mar 25, 2012 | 06:18 PM

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Cool sounds like a plan to me guys!

Mar 25, 2012 | 06:20 PM

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As long as the threadsare the same pitch etc you should be fine.. I would swap out the bushings while I am at it if I was you.

Mar 25, 2012 | 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 11Heritage

+1 on that. I used the same bolts when I switched to 8's and had no issues. You may want to get you some poly riser bushings to replace the rubber ones though. My 8's seemed to want to twist more than the 6's until i changed to poly.