I bought some wire wheels off of Tkent a few months ago and finally got around to buying rubber for them last week. The bike they are going on is a GS1000, which comes with dual disks up front. The hubs on the wire wheel were pre-drilled and and I *think* tapped from the factory. I say I think because Im not 100% sure.
The wheels needed a good cleaning and polishing when I got them, but they would have gotten that anyway
. The bolt holes on the hubs weren't in the cleanest shape so I chased them with a tap to clean out the gunk. The LS was easier to chase than the RS was. On the right side, I would get 3-4.5 threads in and then hit some resistance. A little more force got past the issue and it continued to thread down to the bottom. This issues repeated itself on every hole on the right side of the hub.
I put the rotors on the leftside using new OEM hardware and washers and everything went fine. On the left side however, I ran into a snag:
Using new OEM hardware and washers too, the bolts bottom out before the head makes contact with the washer. The holes appear to be 2 threads too short for the bolts.
So, Do I cut the bolts down? Drill the holes further and re-tap? Or, what?
I have also been pondering replacing the factory bolts with studs and using chrome acorns to cap everything off but that is down the road.
Because we are talking about brakes, I dont want to just wing it and learn the hard way.
The wheels needed a good cleaning and polishing when I got them, but they would have gotten that anyway
. The bolt holes on the hubs weren't in the cleanest shape so I chased them with a tap to clean out the gunk. The LS was easier to chase than the RS was. On the right side, I would get 3-4.5 threads in and then hit some resistance. A little more force got past the issue and it continued to thread down to the bottom. This issues repeated itself on every hole on the right side of the hub.I put the rotors on the leftside using new OEM hardware and washers and everything went fine. On the left side however, I ran into a snag:
Using new OEM hardware and washers too, the bolts bottom out before the head makes contact with the washer. The holes appear to be 2 threads too short for the bolts.
So, Do I cut the bolts down? Drill the holes further and re-tap? Or, what?
I have also been pondering replacing the factory bolts with studs and using chrome acorns to cap everything off but that is down the road.
Because we are talking about brakes, I dont want to just wing it and learn the hard way.
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