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sxviper32

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Ok, i'm gettin all of my bolts, nuts, etc in my srx/viper project sled replaced with all titanium bolts and they need the thread pitch, head size, head type, length, and all that good stuff, but is there an easy way to go about this to get the bolts ordered? he said i could ship out all my bolts to him and they MIGHT be able to charge me to measure them all their-selves and then get them that way. i don't know if there is a way on a yamaha parts site to find out. i could get one of each kind and tell them how many of those i need. just anything to make this easier. plus its confusing cuz its a lot of custom stuff!!! any help or ideas are greatly arppreciated!!! thanks!!!
 
good luck. i cant even find stainless fasteners for most things on my sled. oem's use thread pitches that arent very common and very hard or impossible to find. is this place planning on making them custom? if not, your in trouble!
 
I know the most common bolt on the sleds are 10mmX1.25...I believe the thread pitch is the 1.25...but 1.25 what (mm I assume) I don't really know....
 
When I started my SXR project, I was looking for the same. If I remember correctly, denis kurk or someone like that had a special deal of metric aluminum and/or titanium bolts in blue,red and clear color for about 80 bucks. It's a large jar full of nuts and bolts, washers. I wound up using ss steel for most of my stuff. If you use ss, go with the better grade, it costs a bit more, but wirth it. I tried using the cheeper grade and snapped a few. Lock tite them all. The above comments are correct, finding these thread pitches are a bear. I looked evrywhere. What I wound up doing was replacing alot of mm bolts and nuts to unc. I think finding all the fasteners for my sled was worse than everything else I did. Very frustrating not being able to find what you want. If you do, it will cost you. Good luck.
 
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The thread pitch is the distance, in millimeters, from the peak of one thread to the next one. The lower the number the finer the pitch. The most common are 1.25, 1.50 and 1.75.
 
They use all of them depending on the application and diameter. Be careful you don’t use titanium were it wont handle the stress loads.
 
you can get a thread pitch gauge at any tool supplier. eg craftsman(sears),snap-on, mac , kd, otc,unitool etc.

Just line up the threads on the bolt with the tool and read the pitch
 
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