Damn Bolt

[Steve210]

Bolt Problem

The bolt for my kickstart keeps falling out, i tighten it before i go everytime, and within 5 minutes of riding, i check it, and it is coming lose. I dont even keep the kickstart on anymore, i take it off and carry it with me. Is there anything i can do to stop the bolt from wabbling out? :ride:

 

[Okiewan]

LocTite maybe?

 

[76GMC1500]

How tight are you tightening it? It should be somewhere between 20 and 30 ftlbs, check your manual for th actual number.

 

[FruDaddy]

Make sure you clean the inside threads out before you put the high strength loctite on it.

 

[Steve210]

How tight are you tightening it? It should be somewhere between 20 and 30 ftlbs, check your manual for th actual number.

its a phillips screw and i tighten it till it wont go no more

 

[Steve210]

k well its not a screw.. its a bolt, but it just has a phillips head on it.

 

[FruDaddy]

I believe that the correct term is actually machine screw , bolts get fitted with nuts;). I have never seen one with the phillips head, do you think that it's the stock piece? An allen or hex screw would be easier to tighten.

 

[Steve210]

Ok well, machine screw. And its the peice that came with the machine. It is about and inch long, it has medium fine threads. The head looks like a chinese sun hat with a phillips X in the middle of it. Ill just get some locTite and i should be good. :cool:

 

[FruDaddy]

That's strange, I just noticed that your ride is a KX85 (I didn't bother to look before), and all of my KX's came with allen bolts. It wouldn't hurt to run by a hardware store before you lock it down, and get a bolt that you can stick in the hole in the event that it still makes it's way out.
Yes, I do call them all bolts, even though I know it's technically wrong. It's just one of those things I do to prevent confusion.

 

[Steve210]

Now that I looked at some other pictures, im starting to think the machine screw was an allan key, i dont remember what it was because it fell out when i was at my uncles gravil pit, and i didnt notice it was missing until my cousin pointed it out to me. So what I did was I took one of those screws from that little white protective plastic wall on my rear disk break, and i tried it, and it fit, so i kept it in there. So thats why i thought it was a phillips, but im quite sure now that it was an allan key.

 

[FruDaddy]

The stockers usually have a unique shape to them (my son has lost a couple). Rounded head that is large enough to hold the lever with a larger OD for a few mm inside the lever before it reaches the threads. It's about 20-25mm long, if I remember correctly. I have used a hardware bolt with a washer in the past. Like I said before, the phillips head is harder to properly tighten than allen or hex.