View Single Post
Old 02-26-2010, 09:41 AM   #8 (permalink)
travstoll
Senior Member
 
travstoll's Avatar
Bike: 2009 FZ6R  
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 137
Thanks: 22
Thanked 29 Times in 17 Posts
travstoll is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by 99vengeur View Post
How badly are the heads of the bolts stripped out? You could try to reform them. If you haven't removed a ton of the plastic, take a philips screwdriver and heat the tip up pretty hot. Then push it into the plastic to melt and reshape the head of the bolt. When the shape is right, dump ice cold water on it to set it and reharden the plastic. This might get you enough shape to get the bolts back in and tightened down.
99 is a friggen genius....

I was just at Westlake ACE hardware hardware buying some things....and they do sell a few plastic bolts btw....
travstoll is offline   Reply With Quote
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84