Dont forget to torque spec yer bolts!

Hi all

So I usually stack up all my mechanic work at once. On this job I replaced my front struts with the bilstien 6100s, removed and regreased my camberg UCAs, rebuilt my anti sway bar with new linkages, bushings, and a drop kit, and did a full brake job with new rotors pads and a bleed. Nice sunny day, parked it outside and went to work. A few hours in a monsoon decided to arrive and not only mad rain but turned into hail! Slowed me down and I needed to be somewhere that afternoon so I rushed it and apparently did not torque down one of the two 17mm caliper bolts.

So the upper bolt eventually jumped out, and the force of braking got the caliper rotating around the rear bolt, which eventually started scraping into my wheel. The good news is it looks like the caliper is okay, just scraped up a bit, as it was the harder of the two metals. The wheel though, looking a little rough. My question is - safe to drive on this wheel? The groove while wide isnt that deep, maybe a mil - but it is all the way around so I'm a bit worried about it being structurally unsound. Curious what smarter people than I think (you know, those kind of people that tighten down bolts all the way...)

This is on my 09 tacoma, but the wheels are takeoffs from my buddies '19.

Ive been playing DIY mechanic for some time, so before I get any negative comments - I totally do not mind this situation. Anytime a mistake is made, it's only a bad one if you don't learn from it! So moral of this story is always slow down and double check all your torque specs on your bolts! Plus the torque wrench is somehow really satisfying to use.

 

It hard to tell how deep the scraping is from the caliper on the wheel, but it appears to not be very deep. I'd feel perfectly safe driving on that wheel. If you're concerned about it, you could always find a replacement wheel and use that one as your spare.

 

when you said a mil thick do you mean 1mm deep? Or actually 1 mil (which = 0.001 inches)? Either way I probably wouldn't worry about it and run it.

I had the exact same thing happen on a street bike and I just replaced the bolt and moved on. Admittedly that was scary pulling over to the side of the road.

 

Part it out. It's totaled!

 

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Sorry, it's maybe 1mm deep. Actually maybe a half. Should be good!

 

f its as little as 1mm, then I'd leave it be and move on with my life, Lesson learned.

 

1 mil is nothing, i'm sure the wheel is thick enough where it won't effect it. I'd think about maybe getting the wheel rebalanced though. and for whoever asked a mil is one thousandth of an inch aka .001 inch.