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Old 10-07-2008, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
riiiiight, but you need to grasp the fact that EVEN though it's a common problem, if the bolts were being installed properly, they wouldn't get stuck on like that. Sort of like "whoever" in this country outlawed Lawn Darts (Jarts). If people wouldn't have tossed them straight up into the air and (and come straight down onto their heads) they would hae been perfectly safe. It's the guys who just HAD to hammer the things on with their 500ft/lb impact gun that ruined it for everybody. Now you have to replace them with the stubby ones and it looks like "dirt".
Gilly
I agree with this - as long as you take em off and put em back on (torqued properly) a few times a year, I can't see how they could get stuck. If you do any maintenance, this should just happen as the course of maintenance - for example, in changing the brake fluid/inspecting the brakes.
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