Front Brake Disc Bolts

[Yakmandoo]

Hi Guys, just had to replace my front wheel (FFS POTHOLES) I've taken the discs off the old wheel, cleaned up the bolts, the manual says there one use only due to encapsulated locking on the bolt, can I reuse them? Also looked at titanium bolts, but the question is which loctite? High or medium, the old stuff looked blueish.

[Mareng1]

I re-used the bolts, after cleaning with wire brush and ultra-sonic tank cleaning.  I used low-yield loctite for the bolts.

You may require new spring wafers backing up the disc, though.

Run them in with the drill on low torque and then torque them up with a wrench.

[Antares]

Originally Posted by Yakmandoo

Hi Guys, just had to replace my front wheel (FFS POTHOLES) I've taken the discs off the old wheel, cleaned up the bolts, the manual says there one use only due to encapsulated locking on the bolt, can I reuse them? Also looked at titanium bolts, but the question is which loctite? High or medium, the old stuff looked blueish.

Definitely blue at most, heads of these original bolts are not very hard, was insane effort undoing mine without rounding them off, Definitely don't put red on there!

Should be okay to reuse though. Saying that, i did replace them after 47k miles with new discs

[Yakmandoo]

Yeah I had to use the impact wrench, one got quite chewed up, 2 slightly, definitely not very strong, I've run a die down the threads and wire brushed them up, going to use medium strength thread lock.

[Mareng1]

Originally Posted by Yakmandoo

Yeah I had to use the impact wrench, one got quite chewed up, 2 slightly, definitely not very strong, I've run a die down the threads and wire brushed them up, going to use medium strength thread lock.

I'd shy away from using impact wrench to release them.   Play a hot air gun on the bolts (70c-80c) to soften the threadlock and with a purely rotational steady pressure - slacken them.  Heat-Remove, Heat-remove etc.

Impact wrenhes can work great on a nut/bolt, but not so great on small hex cap screws.   They tend to take it out on the hex.

[Yakmandoo]

As I found out lol, my thinking at the time was the wheel is knackered so just go for it, oh well you live and learn.

[Winger]

Originally Posted by Mareng1

I re-used the bolts, after cleaning with wire brush and ultra-sonic tank cleaning.  I used low-yield loctite for the bolts.

You may require new spring wafers backing up the disc, though.

Run them in with the drill on low torque and then torque them up with a wrench.

+1

Put Dymags on must be the thick end of 7 years ago and did the above.