Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
[Re: cudaman1969]
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45 years ago couldn’t keep oil pan bolts from coming lose or falling out on the race car, on a whim I looked in a service manual, used the torque and never came lose again. Long story short I torque EVERYTHING I can get to at factory spec. I used to have trouble with transmission pans. After I found we had an inch pound wrench I used the spec, typically 12 in lbs, found it took several rounds to get them all tight at once, no more leaks.
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
[Re: poorboy]
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I remember a older Service station mechanic telling me that he had calibrated elbows on most tightening he did on cars in that stations bays. I will use a inch lb. torque wrench and convert the lighter ft. lbs. into inch lbs. like using 23 Ft. Lbs. on 5/16 bolts, 23x12=276 inch lbs. 20x12=240 + 3x12=36. 36+240= 276
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
[Re: 6PakBee]
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I’m surprised.... NO one mentions the critical torque spec of the ...... Muffler bearing Maybe the from Bend oVeR can check in
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
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I find a correlation between the lack of using a torque wrench and leaky valve covers and oil pans. Quite the opposite for me. They are the only ones I have found that needed hand tightening instead of a torque wrench. All seemed to be too loose.
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
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I use a torque wrench on all mechanical assemblies where I can actually gain enough clearence to do so. When I can't, it bothers me!
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
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I find a correlation between the lack of using a torque wrench and leaky valve covers and oil pans. Quite the opposite for me. They are the only ones I have found that needed hand tightening instead of a torque wrench. All seemed to be too loose. I'm thinking of the ones reefed down so hard that they warp the rails and never seal. Both ends of the spectrum are bad.
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
[Re: 3hundred]
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I used to have trouble with transmission pans. After I found we had an inch pound wrench I used the spec, typically 12 in lbs, found it took several rounds to get them all tight at once, no more leaks.
Same here, oil pans and valve covers too.
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
[Re: justinp61]
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I used to have trouble with transmission pans. After I found we had an inch pound wrench I used the spec, typically 12 in lbs, found it took several rounds to get them all tight at once, no more leaks.
Same here, oil pans and valve covers too. Type of pan/cover and gasket probably matters as well. If you're using a cork gasket with a stamped steel cover, then torque spec is crucial. I've been using cast aluminum covers/pans with anti-crush gaskets now for years and don't have any issues with hand tightening. Still using a stamped oil pan, but for that I bought Andy's pan reinforcements.
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
[Re: justinp61]
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I used to have trouble with transmission pans. After I found we had an inch pound wrench I used the spec, typically 12 in lbs, found it took several rounds to get them all tight at once, no more leaks.
Same here, oil pans and valve covers too. #1 important thing for pans and covers is clean and check them with a straight edge. Too many gorillas work on the car before me and think tighten it until it bends the wrench and the pan. For trans/oil/valve covers I do not use anything bigger than a 1/4" drive ratchet. Same thing with plastic intakes. I do follow the gasket manufacturers recommendation about sealant but if it doesn't have specs I do this. Trans pans I oil both sides of the gasket and snug repeatedly in a crisscross pattern until it feels good or the gasket starts to just barely squeeze out. Oil pan I spread a thin thin smear of sealant on both sides of the gasket and snug repeatedly in a crisscross pattern until it feels good or the gasket starts to just barely squeeze out. Valve covers, I use sealant on the valve cover side of the gasket and oil on the bottom of the gasket then snug then repeatedly in a crisscross pattern until it feels good or the gasket starts to just barely squeeze out. If I have a leak I snug a little more but that doesn't happen often and it is usually when a center bolt valve cover has been bent in the middle. The most important thing is to do what works best for you.
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Re: Come on ... BE HONEST...what do you properly TORQUE... ?
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Keep a “fisherman’s scale” in your tool box and every wrench becomes a torque wrench. IF you factor the length of the wrench into the calculation!
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