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When removing the front rotor, you may consider heating the bolts both from the head and thru the spokes to the tip of the bolts. These are in VERY tight and with loctite!! And the bolts a $6 a pop, so don't screw them up! Ask me how I know...

From: jethro666

I have found that the Tucker Rocky book, which is used at many parts counters, has the wrong information for EBC rear pads, listing them as the same as the front pads - FA196. The correct EBC part number for TBA rear pads is FA214. An FA196 pad will not fit on the rear of a TBA or Speedmaster.

Straight from EBC's Application PDF, page 36, here is their info:

02-06 Bonneville America
Front:
Organic Pads/Shoes - FA196
Sintered Double-H-Pads - FA196HH
OE Replacement Rotor - MD649LS
Rear:
Organic Pads/Shoes - FA214/2
Sintered Double-H-Pads - FA214/2HH
OE Replacement Rotor - MD643

03-04 Speedmaster 790cc
Front:
Organic Pads/Shoes - FA196
Sintered Double-H-Pads - FA196HH
OE Replacement Rotor - MD649LS / MD649RS (Left and Right sides)
Rear:
Organic Pads/Shoes - FA214/2
Sintered Double-H-Pads - FA214/2HH
OE Replacement Rotor - MD643

05-06 Speedmaster 865cc
Front:
Organic Pads/Shoes - FA196
Sintered Double-H-Pads - FA196HH
OE Replacement Rotor - MD649LS / MD649RS (Left and Right sides)
Rear:
Organic Pads/Shoes - FA214/2
Sintered Double-H-Pads - FA214/2HH
OE Replacement Rotor - MD643

Also, Brent can provide EBC floating rotors (#MD601LS) at NewSpeedmaster.com
*** As of February 2007, NewSpeedmaster.com is also selling the rear EBC rotors. ***

As an addendum to Ben's post, I spoke with my dealer about the bolts holding the brake rotors on. He says definitely heat the bolts up to melt the loctite before removal. You will round the heads out of them otherwise.

Moe's Edit: Use heat? Alternatively, use a hand held impact driver to break the blue loctite holding the rotor bolts. These are only torqued to 22nm. It's that dern blue locktite! The repair manuals say to replace the bolts no matter how you get them out!

From Ray (Birchr) whi used these when converting to twin front discs:

the part numbers for the brake bolts to hold the callipers on M8 X 40 Chrome part number T3050085 and also the brake hose clips for the front fender/mudguard 2 of them part number T3700024.

Click on this Brake Bleeding Help Needed !!!!!.

Some more threads with tips n tricks:

Bleedin' brakes...

Rear Brake Master Cylinder

HELP!! Bleeding Rear Brakes???????????????????

Front Brake Bleeding Dilemma

From Ray (birchr) again.

His front brake pads from a 1996 Honda CB Seven Fifty are an exact match for ours.

EBC Front Rotor Cross Referenced from the 2008 EBC Catalog
EBC Part number (non floating) MD649LS
Other bikes applications
America/865cc (Cast wheel) 06-08
Bonneville America (790cc) 02-06
Bonneville 800 (790cc) 01-06
Bonneville T100 (865cc) 02-08
Bonneville/Bonneville Black (865cc) 06-08
Scrambler (865cc) 06-08
Speedmaster 800 (790cc) 03-04
Speedmaster (865cc) 05-08
Thunderbird Sport 98-03
Tiger 955cc (Spoke wheel) (up to VIN 198874) 99-04

EBC Rear Rotor Cross Referenced from the 2008 EBC Catalog
EBC Part number MD643
Other bikes applications
Adventurer 96-01
America/865cc (Cast wheel) 06-08
Bonneville America (790cc) 02-06
Legend TT 98-01
Speedmaster 800 (790cc) 03-04
Speedmaster (865cc) 05-08
Thunderbird 95-03
Thunderbird Sport 98-03
Tiger 955cc (Spoke wheel) (up to VIN 198874) 99-04