coasTTal

I've had Stoptechs on my TT for 1.5 years and absolutely love them. I've switched between race and street pads numerous times. Recently I went to change pads and could not remove one of the bridge bolts. I rounded out the internal part for the allen wrench. I tried clamping the bolt and turning. I tried drilling out and using screw extractor. I dremelled a slot in the head of the bolt and used a rachet with slotted screw blade. No luck with any of these. I even twisted the blade on the Craftsman socket driver without dislodging the bolt.

When I install these bolts I always tighten by hand with the allen wrench. However, I have not been using antiseize compound on the bolts. I recently did an Autocross with 15 runs. I suspect the heat, no antiseize, and maybe me hand tighting too much has caused the problem.

I will now probably have to take the caliper to a shop and have someone better than me remove the bolt.

Matt, at Stoptech, sent me new bridge bolts and suggested that the bridge bolts need very little tightening force.

I hope this helps any of you to not to have this problem.

juliem

"Not too tight you idiot ... not too tight..."

My dad has a rep for being sure everything is reassembled nice and tight and has been know to snap or otherwise destroy things

I use a teeny drop of antiseize on the threads and tap gently on the bridge to get it aligned so the pins slide all the way in w/o being turned..

Thanks for the reminder...

AxeYrCat

will watch that! thanks for the PSA!!

A34eva

my bolts were rusted through and I managed to round off one of them just last week!!!

coasTTal

How did you get the bolts out?