Need Help Sourcing Suspension Pivot Bolt / Nut

[Tom@WashDC]

I have a Luna Z1 Enduro and I would like help sourcing the Rear Suspension Pivot Bolt and associated nut. The nut fell off somewhere the other day. I have ordered a set from Luna Cycle ($17.00), but was curious if anyone else can find this bolt/nut combo anywhere else on the web. I have searched high and low on the web and cannot find it. Seems strange that it is not available anywhere else. Thanks in advance.
~Tom

 

[Tom@WashDC]

Yeah, I have 1,400 miles on my bike since mid June. Broke a chain, last week, lost the pivot nut, and broke two spokes all in a week. Time for routine maintenance. Putting loktite in the threads all around is a great idea.

 

[rtp]

There was someone on facebook that managed to put together a sort of 'bulk order of misc parts' from Dengfu, but yeah - it would be nice to have a reasonable ready available source for some of these bits. Unaware of anywhere other than if Luna has some on hand, or trying to work something out with Dengfu.

 

[greeno]

Monthly maintenance is key.

I got a felt pen and put some vertical lines on all my pivot bolts and nuts and now I can check em at a glance to see if anything moves.

Of course before that brainstorm I lost a bolt on one side of my lower pivot knuckle on the drive side and broke the support cup it mounted to. So I jerry rigged it to get me back to where I was parked, luckily mostly downhill.

Luckily I was able to order a shitload of spare parts from Germany ( Exess Bikes ) and now EVERY time I check all the pivot points before going on rides.
I also had one pivot that would always loosen up after a ride, different one from the first problem and even though I applied locktite an torqued to specs it would still loosed up so I ended up removing my bearing and discovered that the inner race was broken. Replaced with new bearings and everything seems to be staying tight.
Bearings are cheap, repacking them is even cheaper.
Good luck.

 

[Tom@WashDC]

Bummer. Glad it wasn't catastrophic.

 

[greeno]

Me too.
I was climbing up through a long kinda technical canyon to get to the top for the downhill drop on the other side. Three quarters of the way up it felt like I had a flat or the rear shock wasn't working correctly. So I dismounted and checked the tires and shock and they were all good so I got back on and immediately felt something had to be off and that's when I saw the rear lower pivot was blown on one side due to the other side upper bolt coming out, probably on the climb. Having only one side supported it probably allowed the other side to flex more than it was capable of so it snapped off.
Nobody around so I had to remove the rear shock top connection to get to the lower support bolts on the pivot knuckle.
I transferred the top remaining bolt to the drive side since most of the stress would be coming from that side when having to pedal. Luckily it was mostly downhill all the way back down the canyon trail, then slight slope on the one mile or so hiking trail then another one mile stretch on the paved service road to where I was parked so all good.
Took about 1/2hr to remedy but no worries.
My backpack weighs about 16lbs so I had my portable tool shop with me.

 

[Tom@WashDC]

Me too.
I was climbing up through a long kinda technical canyon to get to the top for the downhill drop on the other side. Three quarters of the way up it felt like I had a flat or the rear shock wasn't working correctly. So I dismounted and checked the tires and shock and they were all good so I got back on and immediately felt something had to be off and that's when I saw the rear lower pivot was blown on one side due to the other side upper bolt coming out, probably on the climb. Having only one side supported it probably allowed the other side to flex more than it was capable of so it snapped off.
Nobody around so I had to remove the rear shock top connection to get to the lower support bolts on the pivot knuckle.
I transferred the top remaining bolt to the drive side since most of the stress would be coming from that side when having to pedal. Luckily it was mostly downhill all the way back down the canyon trail, then slight slope on the one mile or so hiking trail then another one mile stretch on the paved service road to where I was parked so all good.
Took about 1/2hr to remedy but no worries.
My backpack weighs about 16lbs so I had my portable tool shop with me.

Sounds like you were prepared with your backpack tool shop!
I do believe my Boy Scout Motto