Brake Disk Bolts

[EMPI]

Needing to get a set of bolts to hold my disks on my 748. Thought i would just get them off ebay easily enough, but they want £15.99 for 12 bolts :o

Just going to phone a local company and am pretty certain they will do them, but probably get 1000 for that price (the rest can go on ebay ;))

However the bike is 20 miles down the road. Can anyone tell me the sizes?

Cheers
Stu

[rcgbob44]

Stu

I`ll check my 998 2nite, there bound to be the same.
8mm seems to ring a bell, I changed mine for A4 S/S button Hd Cap screws.

Buy them locally for a few pence, certanly not 16 squid.
Bob.G

[weeksy2]

yeah lads... cheap bolts are exactly what you want when stopping from 150mph time after time after time...

False economy ?

[EMPI]

Hi Bob,

If you could that would be great. Just checked the listing and they are M8 ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8032662543&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 ), just need a length now.

Also if anyone knows a bit about bolts, what else am i looking for? I assume they need to be high tensile or something and normal stainless steel ones wont work :puzzled:

Cheers
Stu

[EMPI]

Originally posted by weeksy2
yeah lads... cheap bolts are exactly what you want when stopping from 150mph time after time after time...

False economy ?

Not too sure really. Ones off ebay could be ones that are just stuck in a bag from any old supplier.

I will probably go with the same supplier that supplys my work (they do torque tools that can produce upto 100000Nm probably more) I just work on the computers so dont really know much about this. But I assume that they must be pretty good bolts holding them together rather than some randoms plucked off ebay.


Stu

[antonye]

Those Duke Demon bolts will not fit anyway - I had a set for the 600 and the bolt heads rubbed on the speedo drive so I had to use a Stanley knife to shave down the plastic slightly - then I removed it completely for a spacer!

You need low profile heads, the same as OEM ones. Something like this:
http://www.tastynuts.com/acatalog/TIDISCDUC10ZOOM.jpg

Oh, and the size is M8 x 20.

[antonye]

PS. M8 x 20 includes the 5mm head profile.

[nelly]

What ever you choose to fit, don't use conventional cap heads. On some, not all, the cap head will hit the speedo drive. Not by much but it will hit.
Use either buttons or low profile headed caps.

[JPM]

What he ^^^ said! ;)

[stu 748]

I am with mr weeksy here i had to cut some m8 stainless steel capheads to lenght the other day and they were really soft, personelly i would go for high tensile bolts ( but hey its only the BRAKES ):puzzled: