I used one of these too, worked fine. Make sure to use blue locktite on
it though to be safe.
They're not supposed to be re-used but I've heard of people doing it
very carefully.
The scary part is that I'd been driving around with one pin stripped and
just pushed into place after the previous person who did the brakes
stripped it and just put the pin back in. Had to replace the caliper
too because it cracked the piston, and had to replace the banjo bolt too
because a big chunk of the head was missing...
On 04/28/2011 05:20 PM, BOBBY wrote:
>
> i once used a pin from the autoparts store that was slightly oversize
> and had a self tapping thread. the name on the package was actually HELP
>
> bob
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Jamie C wrote:
>
>> I need to get a thread repair kit for my caliper pins. It seems like they
>> are metric 9 - 1.25 thread but nobody locally has that size (that I can
>> find). I found "over sized" pins but they list it as 9 - 1.25 which is
>> what
>> the standard thread size is, so they don't seem "over sized"
>>
>> Also looking for brake line banjo bolts but nothing available locally.
>>
>> Thanks for any advise.
>> James
>
>
>
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