for that job I would use an impact and red lock tight done in 10 minutes.
EXACTLY I don’t give a sh!t what MW says, on a shimmed pinion it will not go any tighter. Shims don’t compress! Bearings don’t compress! UNLESS there’s 500 tons on it!
Yep, but he says
"Sounded like BS to me too... until I tried it." There must be places where the laws of physics don't apply.
I'm not talking double digits. More like a couple of inch pounds, for those who are trying to dial it in to a preferred number.
That's okay though. Maybe those were days I did some mushrooms and hallucinated it all.
