quick rotor question
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Road Warrior
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quick rotor question
going to take off my rotos on my 07 flhp to sand them down. book says to use new bolts when putting them back on. legit?
also - any tips on sanding them would be helpful.
thx - tin
also - any tips on sanding them would be helpful.
thx - tin
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The new rotor bolts come with a coating. Don't know what the coating is, but I'm **** enough to follow HD's instructions to the letter, especially when it pertains to brakes.
Also, the rotors will have a minimum thickness spec inscribed in them near the center, so you may want to mic the thickness if the bike has some mileage on it.
Carl
Also, the rotors will have a minimum thickness spec inscribed in them near the center, so you may want to mic the thickness if the bike has some mileage on it.
Carl
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My feeling is that the head is a torx head and they tend to get chewed up on removal. the factory puts them on tight as hell. I would use a breaker bar and some heat. The white stuff is probably a low grade locktite. I would use red loctite.
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In my opinion, if the bolts come off without damaging the heads, I don't see an issue with reusing them after applying Red Loc-Tite to their threads.
But if I was putting on polished rotors, I would use chrome rotor bolts.
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using a d/a sander would work great. not sure of the grit, but 240 or finer should be okay. that is if you have access to a d/a sander, it's an oscillating round padded head sander that runs off of air. easiest way i can think of anyway.