• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Footpeg Bolt Upgrade Reminder

Good post but a few things to remember, food for thought...

1. Lower grade bolts have less tensile strength and there for will bend and give before failing. High grade bolts are stronger but at some point snap clean instead of give a little. there may be a reson for the grade bolt chosen.

2. Strong bolts will mean something else might fail. You have to ask yourself if you want the bolt to fail or the part that is bolted.

3. In the bolts shown the replacements look like black oxide. This is a crappy plating just used to transport bolts so they don't arrive rusted. The ones removed are yellow zink / cadmium plating, very tough and long lasting. Corrosion could set in and cause them to be real hard to get out at some point.

4. Torque specs rely on the bolt stretching and are spec'ed as such, that is out the window now, to not try to torque these to spec.

Not bashing your idea and it is probably fine just some food for thought.
 
Tensile strength of a grade 5 is 120,000psi, where grade 8 is 150,000psi

Metric
8.8 = approx. 116,000 psi (800N/mm2)
9.8 = approx. 130,000 psi (9000N/mm2)
10.9 = approx. 145,000 psi (1000N/mm2)
12.9 = approx. 174,000 psi (1200N/mm2)

If my foot peg bolts were grade 8.8, I would change them right away. If they were 10.9, I would leave them until I got really bored.


@Kelly- do you happen to have a supplier for upgraded foot peg pins?
 
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