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Sodding Brake Shields! - C.A.R. - 16-06-2014

All I can hear down the road is my rear brake shields rattling.

This is partly my own fault.

When re-fitting the shields on following the replacement rear beam a couple of the securing bolts sheared off at the heads for these - they're only an M6 thread so tiny!

So I have one bolt securing the O/S shield and 2 bolts on the other (each side should have 3 bolts).

What's the best way to extract these broken bolts? Are the cheap 'Easy-out' extractors on eBay worth a punt? I have never tried using them. I'm worried that the bolts are so tiny they may not have any affect.

Answers on a postcard please.

*Until very recently one of these was held on with cable ties. It is very awkward to fix these on with any more cable ties. I tried.

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - Eeyore - 16-06-2014

I had exactly the same problem. First I replaced the bolts but the sheild disitegrated around them. THen I cable tied them but the cable ties snapped... So then I just removed them.

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - C.A.R. - 16-06-2014

Yea it seems that now they have been removed they're not wanting to go back on. Perhaps they rust themselves into a comfortable position and don't like to be disturbed?!

This happened to one of my other ones -

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I refuse to pay £40 for some new ones!!

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - miles - 16-06-2014

Always take them off, More hassle than there worth

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - Rippthrough - 17-06-2014

What Miles said, in the bin!

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - nick000 - 17-06-2014

I have the same on a 6 beam I have cleaning up atm. £40! think I will be binning mine as well.

Anyone report any probs without them??

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - Toms306 - 17-06-2014

(17-06-2014, 11:41 AM)nick000 Wrote: Anyone report any probs without them??

In my experience the rear caliper sliders seem to seize up every 6 months or so whether you have gaurds or not! Might just be my driving though, I don't tend to use brakes much, especially from speed, engine braking ftw.

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - welshpug - 17-06-2014

Stored under B.!


never had a seized caliper anyway!

RE: Sodding Brake Shields! - C.A.R. - 18-06-2014

Right I'm gonna f*ck these in the bin next weekend then, cheers guys.