C3Duece

Hello All

I'm in a bit of a bind. My car's in the garage on jack stands right now and will stay there until I can get the right/rear caliper back on.

The other day I was getting a squealing noise from the rear passenger side wheel and the rotor was looking a bit scored so I assumed it was time for new pads. I was unable to remove the pads from the top on either side so I figured why not pull off the caliper and push them out from the back side.

The drivers side came apart pretty easily but I still had to carefully beat the pads out from the bottom through the top with a hammer. They came out and the pistons looked good (but old). I installed the new pads and hung the caliper torquing it down very snugly.

The passengers side pretty much came a part just as easily as the drivers side but I to use more force to break the caliper bolts loose. Turns out this extra force stripped the first couple of threads from the caliper bracket When I get the hole of the caliper lined up with the hole of the bracket the bolt falls all the way in the hole and does not grab any threads no matter how hard I push or angle the bolt/caliper. I tried the bolts from the driver's side and they wouldn't grab any threads either. I then tried the the bolts from the passengers side on the drivers side and they bottomed out on the threads right away and snugged up as expected.

My questions are:
- will similar but longer bolts from a local hardware store for the passengers side be a suitable workaround?

- what grade/thread/pitch will I need?

- are these caliper bolts reusable or do I need to replace them every time after removing the calipers?

thanks a lot