In theory, yes. In practice, you risk breaking a low-quality bolt if too much of the thread is painted over and the torque necessary to overcome the friction is more than the fastener can bear. Happened to me when I was trying to install a Nitto rack on my Hunqapillar; things were going well until the bolt snapped in two about 3/4 of an inch inside the braze-on. It took the LBS only about five minutes to extract the bolt and finish reaming the painted-over braze-on, but it was a pain in the neck, regardless. And I was surprised to find that Nitto provided relatively low-quality fasteners, considering that its racks are generally first rate. Kevin
On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 10:37:02 PM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Can't you do that by just carefully running the bolt in before installing > the rack? I agree the tap is a good idea, but I've never needed one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
