Hi I am Casey and I own a 1995 Buick LeSabre. I was redoing the brakes on it when I ran into a problem. The bottom caliper bolt on the passenger side was cross-threaded and I of course destroyed what was left of the threads on both the bolt and spindle[img]smileys/smiley7.gif[/img]. I went to the hardware store only to find out that the bolt is not a 10mm or a 12mm[img]smileys/smiley3.gif[/img]. We think it may be an 11mm x 1.5[img]smileys/smiley5.gif[/img]. Anyone who would know anyhting about this would be a great help. I am trying to use "Recoil" threads to fix the problem. Thanks alot!

I believe it is a fine metric thread, but I can't say exactly. There's not much "meat" there, so I wonder if you'll be able to repair it well. Not sure, off the top of my head, how much is involved, but I would try to replace the anchor. You really don't want things failing there.

did you find a fix yet?


they make oversized caliper bolts to cut new threads, in situations like this.


and i believe the original is 11x1.25 or maybe 1.0