I think perhaps Robert Bentley is not German. (Yankees from Boston,I think!) Most important with the con rod nuts is to throw them and the bolts away, preferably get the rods made round again too. This is apparently the main cause of low oil pressure/ bearing/crank failure in the 2.1 engines. Al Brase Vanagons zolo wrote: >I looked and could not find the torques specs for the conrod nuts. This is a 2.1 L regular van. 87 model. >Also, I must say, I am flabbergasted to see that there is no torque listing in the Bentley of all the bolts and nuts of importance on one page. I had to gather all I needed for assembling the engine from fifty different pages, hunting for the torque figures. Kind of non germanic arrangement. I noticed that many essentials are missing or ignored or you just have to guess. Oh vell... ve are not all the same. >Zoltan > > > |
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