You can buy oversized self tapping caliper bolts. Or just helicoil it.
Really up to you.
brian cropp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net [mailto:owner-dakota-
> truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of M.B.
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 8:26 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: $#@# Brakes continued
>
>
>
> Well, I finally found the banjo bolt after 2 hours of driving around
> today from Napa store to Napa store until I found one willing to
> actually look hard enough to find it as it wasn't listed in the computer.
>
> I got it all back together except the top pin in the drivers side
> caliper (the one that had the messed up banjo bolt), and found out the
> reason it was loose to begin with - the hole on the steering knuckle is
> completely stripped.
>
> So now I'm screwed - all I can figure is that I either have to find a
> pin with a larger diameter threaded end and tap the hole to that size,
> or I have to helicoil it, or I have to replace the entire steering
> knuckle. All because some idiot probably used an impact gun to tighten
> it.
>
> Back to driving my Dad's '00 Merc Sable that eats sparkplugs and has
> 60psi compression on two cylinders...
>
> M.B.
>
> On 09/19/2010 12:23 PM, M.B. wrote:
> >
> >
> > Only has that many because I replaced the tie rod ends, pitman arm and
> > idler arm with greaseable moog ones... seemed like a good idea at the
> time.
> >
> > Then you try to grease all of them with the front skid plate on and you
> > wish you hadn't. ;)
> >
> >
> > On 09/19/2010 04:38 AM, MICHAEL CABE wrote:
> >>
> >> i wish my 02 had 12 zerk fittings ! any where
> >>
> >> --- On Sun, 9/19/10, M.B.<mailinglists@moparhowto.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> From: M.B.<mailinglists@moparhowto.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: DML: $#@# Brakes
> >>> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> >>> Date: Sunday, September 19, 2010, 5:56 AM
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yup... and it has the stock "Sport" rims on it. (The chrome
> >>> plated steel
> >>> ones).
> >>>
> >>> The caliper bolt/pin that was loose was partially stripped
> >>> too. I find
> >>> all sorts of interesting stuff on this truck every time I
> >>> work on it.
> >>> Both doors are off an '88 Dakota, and metallic blue... on a
> >>> red truck.
> >>> But you only see it if you take the door panels off.
> >>> And the mirrors
> >>> are the "elephant ear" electrics... but the plugs don't go
> >>> anywhere.
> >>>
> >>> I like it though, it has almost all the options I would
> >>> want. Never
> >>> mind the slow leak in the A/C, the steering box that goes
> >>> ping, and that
> >>> there are *12* zerk fittings that I have to grease every
> >>> oil change just
> >>> in the front end...
> >>>
> >>> M.B.
> >>>
> >>> On 09/18/2010 11:59 PM, Dave wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Except that the brake line is on the INSIDE of the
> >>> caliper...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If we cannot afford to take care of Veterans, then we
> >>> should stop making
> >>>> them.
> >>>> David C. Wilker Jr.
> >>>> USAF (RET)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> >>>> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net]
> >>> On Behalf Of Dave
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:55 PM
> >>>> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> >>>> Subject: RE: DML: $#@# Brakes
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I would guess at some time you had the wrong size
> >>> wheel on, and the rim
> >>>> rubbed it, maybe?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If we cannot afford to take care of Veterans, then we
> >>> should stop making
> >>>> them.
> >>>> David C. Wilker Jr.
> >>>> USAF (RET)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> >>>> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net]
> >>> On Behalf Of David Gersic
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:09 PM
> >>>> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> >>>> Subject: Re: DML: $#@# Brakes
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Saturday 18 September 2010 23:22:22 you wrote:
> >>>>> Then I went to take the caliper off to replace it
> >>> and found this:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/1995-Dakota/brakes/bad_bolt.jpg
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How the $#@$@# do you do THAT to a banjo bolt?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yow. Is that part of the bolt head missing?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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