NOR-CAL General Chat.

[mbonanni]

Securing my point even more. Crank those things down. Use those tiny little arms of yours.

[ohthejosh]

#lbvarms.

[phreshkid]

Securing my point even more. Crank those things down. Use those tiny little arms of yours.

#lbvarms.

[e30vert]

A much better idea is to safety wire them. I used to have to do that for for track days on my superbike.

Take the bolts(4 of em right) to a local machine shop and have them drill a hole through the bolt head on the horizontal.
Then torque those bishes down to factory spec. Then insert safety wire through the hole on one bolt and then twist the wires upon themselves. Run that same set of wire ends to the other bolt on the caliper and do the same thing.

Wind the wires upon themselves in a spiral pattern and snip off the residual wire.

Do this for the remaining three calipers.

4 times with caliper bolt(s),backing out is way more than a coincidence.

If you back one out that has been safety wired then your shit if fuckin haunted by the Reaper.

Best Pirate Voice- "Swab me decks matey here be an image ya skaliwag"

4 examples

[kronus]

given that basically every single e30 except vivek's doesn't have a caliper-bolt-backing-out problem, slapping a safety wire bandaid on a improperly torqued bolt is not a "much better idea".

I like and use safety wire, but I use it in addition to correctly torqued hardware, not instead of it.

[e30vert]

Agreed! My post clearly states " Torque those bishes down to factory specification" first

4 times backing out of a bolt indicates the potential of another issue which is causation.

Instead of hearing about a 5th instance which was catastrophical the safety wire is added backup.

Although even an improperly torqued bolt that is safety wired is immeasurably better than one or more backing all the way out.

[Cabriolet]

LBV, after i threw on on 17 in the dark. i tighten those mother fuckers so hard and i blue locktite then

[Pantless Spency]

I snapped one of mine off in the the bracket, wasn't even torquing it very hard! Luckily there was a replacement available at autozone that day and it wasn't too hard to get the snapped off but out of the bracket.

[3vilE30]

I actually lost a bolt while driving, let's just say it doesn't sound good when you tap the brakes.... Luckily I was 2 miles away from home. Threw in wheel lug temporarily, torqued them down enough that I tweaked a solid 1/4 to 3/8 socket adapter.

[freeride53]

dmitriy we should grab lunch next week yo.

[kronus]

:up:

[kronus]

only thing i know in that direction is perilla

[freeride53]

:up:

yes

only thing i know in that direction is perilla

yes.

text me ur # if you still have mine, my stupid icloud wiped out all my contacts a while back :roll:

[MR 325]

I'm never gonna get tatted. I live that OEM lifestyle.

More for me. I'm getting #MR325 on my forehead next week.

[oliver.r]

yes

yes.

text me ur # if you still have mine, my stupid icloud wiped out all my contacts a while back :roll:

youve been going on so many dates