honda captive rotors

[LHoang]

Hey I was wondering it anybody knew where to get some “hardened” bolts that Eric used in his youtube video to remove the honda captive rotors. I’ve been looking everywhere for them!

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[Anthony Frattaroli]

I found them at Lowe’s

[Anthony Frattaroli]

I found them at Lowe’s

[EricTheCarGuy]

I could do a video just on fasteners alone. Basically these bolts are specially treated through heating and cooling to ‘harden’ them. You’ll normally see a marking on the bolt head like a number or straight lines indicating that these fasteners have had the hardening treatment. As stated most times you can find them at your local hardware store.

[EricTheCarGuy]

I could do a video just on fasteners alone. Basically these bolts are specially treated through heating and cooling to ‘harden’ them. You’ll normally see a marking on the bolt head like a number or straight lines indicating that these fasteners have had the hardening treatment. As stated most times you can find them at your local hardware store.

[Lawrence Speece]

I, too, was able to find the proper bolts at Lowes. However, by the time I had removed both wheel hub bearing assemblies/rotors from the wishbones by using the sledge hammer method, four hours had passed with the hardened bolts bent to an unusable state. Don’t be afraid to use a lot of PB Blaster along with a great amount of patience mixed with sweat and a few cold ones :cheer: I might add that I was not able to remove the rotors due to the four bolt configuration. At that point, I replaced the rotors and wheel hub bearing assemblies with new ones. I intend to drill out the four bolts on each original assembly…after all, the wheel hub bearing assemblies are still in good shape. It’s just a shame I was not able to use the GDT5 tool (have you encountered this particular tool Eric??) that would have made the job quicker and easier. As a side note, I performed this repair due to warped rotors causing the infamous monster shakes that accompanied each push of the brake pedal. Now, she brakes super smooth, especially with the added new brake pads. Total repair cost was south of $250 thanks to eBay!! Hope this is of some help to someone out there who is having similar problems with their beloved Honda Accord. 1992Lucky, as my oldest son named her, is now one happy camper of a car 🙂 Love my car 🙂 🙂 🙂

[Lawrence Speece]

I, too, was able to find the proper bolts at Lowes. However, by the time I had removed both wheel hub bearing assemblies/rotors from the wishbones by using the sledge hammer method, four hours had passed with the hardened bolts bent to an unusable state. Don’t be afraid to use a lot of PB Blaster along with a great amount of patience mixed with sweat and a few cold ones :cheer: I might add that I was not able to remove the rotors due to the four bolt configuration. At that point, I replaced the rotors and wheel hub bearing assemblies with new ones. I intend to drill out the four bolts on each original assembly…after all, the wheel hub bearing assemblies are still in good shape. It’s just a shame I was not able to use the GDT5 tool (have you encountered this particular tool Eric??) that would have made the job quicker and easier. As a side note, I performed this repair due to warped rotors causing the infamous monster shakes that accompanied each push of the brake pedal. Now, she brakes super smooth, especially with the added new brake pads. Total repair cost was south of $250 thanks to eBay!! Hope this is of some help to someone out there who is having similar problems with their beloved Honda Accord. 1992Lucky, as my oldest son named her, is now one happy camper of a car 🙂 Love my car 🙂 🙂 🙂

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