THE STORY :ahhh: :
So I just replaced the rear brake pads on my bike (never done it myself before). The workshop manual tells me to tighten the the pad pin to 10Nm. That's a hell of a lot of Nm when you've only got an allen key with 3 inch handle (I unscrewed it by levering a ring spanner on the end of the allen key).
Is that much torque really necessary? The pin has a locking screw behind it and there are no forces that are going to try and unscrew it.
THE QUESTION :think: :
Has anyone ever had a failure caused by insufficient torque on the pad pin?
So I just replaced the rear brake pads on my bike (never done it myself before). The workshop manual tells me to tighten the the pad pin to 10Nm. That's a hell of a lot of Nm when you've only got an allen key with 3 inch handle (I unscrewed it by levering a ring spanner on the end of the allen key).
Is that much torque really necessary? The pin has a locking screw behind it and there are no forces that are going to try and unscrew it.
THE QUESTION :think: :
Has anyone ever had a failure caused by insufficient torque on the pad pin?
