Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
[Re: BDW]
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08/06/22 01:57 PM
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CMcAllister
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Rotate the thing and just get them snug to make sure nothing is jammed up. It should pull up and seat on the flex plate easily. I rotate the thing around a few times just tightening as I go to the desired tightness. One of the few places I don't use a torque wrench.
25 is not real tight. Just a few little ooga-doogas with a long wrench.
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
[Re: CMcAllister]
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08/06/22 03:53 PM
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Rotate the thing and just get them snug to make sure nothing is jammed up. It should pull up and seat on the flex plate easily. I rotate the thing around a few times just tightening as I go to the desired tightness. One of the few places I don't use a torque wrench.
25 is not real tight. Just a few little ooga-doogas with a long wrench. Yup long shank slim 1/2 drive snap on wrench and locktight. Just don't try to gorilla them and it will be fine.
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
[Re: cudaman1969]
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08/06/22 04:22 PM
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Lock tight and my hand, always the same torque after 50 years. Not one has come loose. Probably the lock tite and not the hand doing that. Never used lock tite, never had one come loose that I installed either.
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
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08/06/22 06:14 PM
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Lock tight and my hand, always the same torque after 50 years. Not one has come loose. Probably the lock tite and not the hand doing that. Never used lock tite, never had one come loose that I installed either. You mean to tell me you can’t ‘feel’ the right torque after pulling wrenches that long?
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
[Re: cudaman1969]
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08/06/22 07:11 PM
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47 years of installing race transmissions and I’ve never found the need to use a torque wrench. But like said earlier I also use red loctite
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
[Re: cudaman1969]
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08/06/22 08:26 PM
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Lock tight and my hand, always the same torque after 50 years. Not one has come loose. Probably the lock tite and not the hand doing that. Never used lock tite, never had one come loose that I installed either. You mean to tell me you can’t ‘feel’ the right torque after pulling wrenches that long? Not a matter of feeling it, it's a matter of knowing it without a doubt. I don't care to do a job more than once.
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
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08/06/22 11:50 PM
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cudaman1969
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Lock tight and my hand, always the same torque after 50 years. Not one has come loose. Probably the lock tite and not the hand doing that. Never used lock tite, never had one come loose that I installed either. You mean to tell me you can’t ‘feel’ the right torque after pulling wrenches that long? Not a matter of feeling it, it's a matter of knowing it without a doubt. I don't care to do a job more than once. Knowing when to use a torque wrench is the key, I don’t need to use one putting on fender bolts.
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
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08/07/22 02:24 PM
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Lock tight and my hand, always the same torque after 50 years. Not one has come loose. Probably the lock tite and not the hand doing that. Never used lock tite, never had one come loose that I installed either. Read the recent thread here about "place bolts". Most of the factory converter and flexplate bolts were place bolts that need nothing additional but, since there are other types of bolts used nowadays, Loctite is cheap insurance.
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Re: TC bolt tightening sequence
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08/07/22 04:33 PM
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cudaman1969
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Lock tight and my hand, always the same torque after 50 years. Not one has come loose. Probably the lock tite and not the hand doing that. Never used lock tite, never had one come loose that I installed either. Read the recent thread here about "place bolts". Most of the factory converter and flexplate bolts were place bolts that need nothing additional but, since there are other types of bolts used nowadays, Loctite is cheap insurance. Since the 90s all the converter bolts (at least the ones for dodge trucks) come with loctite on them and to not reuse the old ones.
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