AFAIK, the self tapping ones can be used over and over again like a regular
caliper bolt. Just have to make sure you don't start cross threading them
or you will cut new threads and pretty much ruin the knuckle. I have no
experience with them myself, but I'd think you'd screw them in with the
caliper on to make sure it's in the right spot.
brian cropp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net [mailto:owner-dakota-
> truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of M.B.
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:00 AM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: Re: DML: RE: $#@# Brakes continued
>
>
>
> Also, do you put the bolt in like normal, or do you run it through the
> hole in the knuckle once before installing it like normal?
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.B.
>
> On 09/19/2010 08:27 PM, M.B. wrote:
> >
> >
> > I saw the self-tapping one on Napa's website. Can you do the full
> > recommended 28-32ft/lb on one of those? And I think they're single-use
> > only...
> >
> > If it comes down to it I'd rather do that I guess and replace the
> > steering knuckle whenever I have to do my ball joints, if I can find
> > one. Too bad it doesn't just have bolt-on adapter brackets like all the
> > Dodge FWD cars do.
> >
> > M.B.
> >
> >
> > On 09/19/2010 06:37 PM, Brian wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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