Posted by Desoto61 [138.162.0.43] on Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 15:08:15 :
In Reply to: nice axle work posted by clueless [201.202.24.222] on Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 10:36:50 :
Thanks, hopefully they work as nice as they look! Getting closer though.
My initial thought was I wanted all 8, but honestly it's overkill (not that there's anything wrong with that). In the stock application those bolts would be holding the wheel to the truck and need to handle all the shear loads for holding that corner of the truck up in addition to the shear load from the brake rotors.
In our applications those bolts only hold the rotor to the flange, so the only load they see is the shear force between the rotor and the brake caliper. Compared to the pins holding the caliper to the bracket those bolts are way stronger than needed. See the link for some of the math.
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