Warning! - MTS1200 brake disc retaining bolts!!

Hi knight rider.....I am entirely on your wavelength.....do it yourself....9x out of 10 you get it right and learn something....1x out of 10 you f...k it up and it costs you! It's called learning fees! Having paid those fees you will never do that again!

 

My mate managed to get out my bolts today but when we looked at his bolts on his pikes peak they have used a different bolt,
they were definitely bigger and took a T45 bit which seemed much better

 

No Andy, his is on a 61 plate, got it Jan 2012....

 

Its my bike he is talking about ive tried to take some shots of the bolts but havent got the old ones from nightriders to compare them to but they are defo different size and torx head .
as you can see they are not a dome head bolt and they have a deeper torx insert they seem much better bolt ,i have not had these changed these are standard with the bike

 

I've just had a quick look in the garage while I was having a pre-work smoke and mine are exactly the same as the photo. That's on a 2012 ABS model.

The only tip I can give for removing them is to use a gas soldering iron with the fine 'burner' type nozzle on it to put heat directly into the centre of the bolt and get it hot enough to kill the Loctite then let it cool down again and it should come out. You'll know when the Loctite is cooked because you'll see a small amount of smoke coming from the edge of the bolt.

Heating the wheel isn't really a good idea because the alloy will expand in the direction it finds easiest which will mean that the holes will become smaller until the whole wheel is hot and everything has expanded.