Overtorquing

[Turkina]

What does Anti-seize compound + Torque wrench + torque specs = ?

One strange looking bolt!  Skinny in the middle with stretched out threads!  I'll put a pic up once I find my camera.  

I was wondering why I could keep going on my torque wrench and not be at my torque setting.  After that, I wondered what was rubbing against my front brake rotor.  Well, it was a stretched out caliper mounting bolt  

No more playing with antiseize to make things disassemble easier... And I also have to figure out why my back caliper is stuck shut on my rotor    I did want to ride out to the Hamptons tomorrow.

Can anyone give me the Suzuki part number for the front caliper mounting bolts?  I gotta pick one up from the stealer tomorrow and the dimwits probably will have difficulty looking it up  Bikebandit and Ron Ayers have their own part numbers listed on their fiche.

[GRU]

that sucks

[Kerry]

[perfdrug]

do you get paid by the site kerry? you're a stud.

[Kerry]

do you get paid by the site kerry?

Hey, not a bad idea!  

Naw, seriously.  I'm just in it for "the love of the game".  

[SmoothDave]

Well, my man, we appreciate it.

Thanks, Kerry.

Smooth Dave

[Turkina]

Sweet, thanks (one guy at the place I plan to go to, didn't know what a GS was!  But yesterday, a guy in the service department called the GS a sweet little bike!   )

Notice Kerry doesn't have a personalized title.  "Elite Member" says it all!  

[Richard UK]

A note of warning guys!  

Don't use anti-sieze compounds (copper slip, grease etc.) on brake caliper retaining bolts.  They should be fitted with loctite on the threads and torqued up, and the threads should be squeaky clean and oil and grease free before you put the loctite on.  

Otherwise you may risk the brake caliper falling off unexpectedly with interesting results .

[Kerry]

Bikebandit and Ron Ayers have their own part numbers listed on their fiche.

NEWS FLASH!

BikeBandit does indeed list only their home-grown part numbers, but as far as I can tell the Ron Ayers site lists the Suzuki part numbers after all.

When I compared the Ron Ayers front brake caliper part numbers with those listed on the French site (which I linked to above), they were identical.  And the part numbers on both sites look a LOT like the ones BikeBandit used to show before they went "proprietary".

[Turkina]

Damn my small notebook computer screen! hehe  :mrgreen:
You're right... those B's looked like 8's and the C and D's looked like zeroes at first glance.

Oh well