[dsn_klr650] canadian bolts

[Dash Weeks]

A little fore-warning from my limited and normally useless experience. Be careful to choose which bolts you want to switch between hex head bolts and socket head cap screws. There is more gripping surface area on a hex head bolt vs. inside the hex on the cap screw. That means that you have a much easier time stripping out the socket head cap screw over the hex head bolt when it is seized or required a fair amount of torque. Theoretically they are supposed to be close for a given thread size. But it is easier to start rounding the cap screw. You can normally get more leverage on the hex head bolt and if you go with replacing all of them to cap screws then get yourself a set of hex wrench sockets. Be careful when leveraging on the ratchet though, since any mis-alignment will surely strip out the cap screw. This is mostly a problem with stainless cap screws. The common stainless ones are considered like grade three of the alloy type. Not very strong fasteners, but certainly capable of doing most jobs on the KLR. laterZ Dash At 04:04 AM 4/27/00 -0000, Ed Caton wrote:

>Two sources that I recommend. (I am in the Toronto Area) > >1. Canadian Tire (nee Crappy Tire, nee Crappy). A newer bigger >store usually has bins of successive sizes and lengths, all hex- >head. Also have a small and large head size for the same threads. >Must be a grading thing. > >2. Spae-Naur. There is one in Kitchener/Waterloo. THere is one in >Tononto (Scarborough I think). May also be in yellow pages under >Kemsies, which must be their parent. You can buy boxes of fasteners >or assorted kits in those compartmentalized steel bins that fit into >racks. I would think that for $100 Canadian you could order a kit >that would last forever. > >The third option I would try would be to go to your local Race shop, >like RACE in Cambridge. There used to be a shop called Brutune in >Stoney Creek (awesome shop run by a guy named Les - don't know what >happened to them...) and Les always had stainless socket-head cap >screws of various sizes on hand to replace hex-heads and phillips >heads on race bikes. They were usually drilled for race wire. My >bet is that those boys have a good source of fasteners. > >BTW, a socket-head cap screw is allen head. > >Eddie

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