Caliper bolts

[AcIdBuRnZ]

Hi,

Should I use locktite on caliper bolts?

I put them on with copper grease to stop them from siezing on.

What's the recommended?
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[the grim reaper]

If anyone was to remove the caliper bolts from a new bike, they would find no copper grease and two stripes of (normally blue) loctite.

Never, ever use copper grease on caliper bolts (which just about every dealer does ), they should be thread locked in so that they can't vibrate out.

Cheers

Grim
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[AcIdBuRnZ]

Cheers
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[TOM M]

Whats locktite?
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[AcIdBuRnZ]

[BanditsHigh]

Oi ... not good enough for you in the Scottish section anymore?

Been working on bikes 20 years ... never used loctite on caliper mounting bolts ... always copper grease ... never had a bolt undo!!!

Bolts which should be torqued to a specific value should not be greased ... like caliper mounting bolts ... but again I've never ever had a problem.

All the best ... Barry

P.S. I'll forgive you this once

[AcIdBuRnZ]

@ Barry

I have a habit of regularly going round my bikes just checking that no bolts have worked loose anyway
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[fuzz]

[AcIdBuRnZ]

Anyway, a bolt isn't going to work loose over the course of a days rideout, is it?

Would probably take a while before it became dangerous

Meh... I was riding with a siezed caliper before anyway
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[AcIdBuRnZ]

[fuzz]

I just thought that if someone wanted some they might be given superglue or something instead. Certainly don't want to use that on your caliper bolts. They do many products, so make sure you get what you need!

https://www.loctite.com/int_henkel/loctite_uk/index.cfm?&pageid=241&layout=3


And I don't ask for those things, I just pick them up off the shelf
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[AcIdBuRnZ]

Was just having a larf

However, it was only last year I discovered that Locktite was a brand - I thought that was what the product was called. I'm sure many other people think the same
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[fuzz]

I know and hence my first post
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[AcIdBuRnZ]

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[owdamer]

I've been using copper grease on my caliper bolts for about the last 15 years and I've never had one come loose yet.
Disk bolts come with loctite on when you buy em new, caliper bolts dont. Doesn't that tell you something?

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