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Hood:
Hi,

I'm hoping someone can please tell me if I've wasted my time and money please!?

Last Friday, I bought an Odyssey Evo II to put on the rear of my Colony Endeavour 2016 model. Simple I thought, lol! So I bought the frame mounts too and set to work. All was well until I came to mount the caliper to the frame!!!

I was in the process of tightening the lugs to the frame and when the screw thread that has the blue dye in (not sure what that is exactly, I'm guessing a type of epoxy resin!?)  I REALLY struggled to tighten them all the way in as they are rounded to begin with and thought, I'll tighten it up properly once I've put the brake assembly together and the caliper is on the frame!

So in tightening the bolt, I managed to slip with the Allen key and therefore screwed up the hex key bolts edges that tightens the spring! So I've managed to get the lug off the frame and as I'd only done one side, have now got a brake less bike!?

Thing is, I don't want a brakeless bike, I want to fit the brake, trouble is, as the lug is still attached to one of the calipers and just turns, again it's rounded and difficult to hold, is getting the hex bolt out possible, as I don't fancy buying a complete new brake assembly next pay day lol!

Was just curious as to whether any of you much more experienced guys could offer a solution please!?

Thanks very much in advance!

fugazi:
The blue dye you're on about is thread lock to stop the mounts coming loose  :daumenhoch: can you put some pics up as there's a few different types of brake mounts out there & I'm not 100% on what ones Colony use!

Hood:
Hi Fugazi,

Tried to upload pic, doesn't seem to work?!

I you could please Google Colony Brake Mounts their quite big with spacers!

Many thanks!

fugazi:
If they're the type I'm thinking of, if you look down the end of the mount there's a 3 or 4mm broach for an allen key so you can tighten the mounts up then install the brake, don't overtighten the countersunk brake bolt, just nip it up enough to stop the spring caps moving.

Hood:
Hi,

Just double checked and there's a screwdriver slot at the end that screws in to the frame mounting holes themselves. So I've got 2 x Evo brake caliper arms that have frame mounts being held in place by the spring clip hex bolt, and as the hex bolt is in on both arms, down to the blue material, the whole thing spins through the arms themselves!?

The only way I can see to rectify this is to clamp the protruding part of the hex bolts and to pray that a screwdriver in the opposite end will be sufficient!?

Otherwise, I've been a very silly boy!?

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