Hey all: You gotta love the manuals; so clear, so carefully researched, so exact, with typos and mistakes that might hurt you or your car ruthlessly expunged. So, I'm in the process of attaching the engine support to one of the 2.0l engines I'm rebuilding, and I look in Wilson's book for the correct torque to use here. (The engine support is that cast aluminium thing to which you attach the rubber engine mounts which then attach to the steel engine carrier.) Wilson says (pg 150) "14 ft./lbs." which seems a little low for an 8mm bolt, but I go ahead and use that. Since I'm bothered by the low torque Wilson specs, I look in my old Clymer manual for the aircooled Vanagons and it too says 14 ft./lbs. So, that 14 ft./lbs. has got to be right, right? But then I look in the Benteley (pg 13.5) and it says 33 ft./lbs.! Quite a bit more than 14 ft./lbs. Mindfull that sometimes manuals contain mistakes (NO!!) I take a look in my Haynes manual (pg 26) which also opines that 33 ft./lbs. is the right torque to use here. Anybody else have an opinion? Take an average of the manuals and use 23.5 ft./lbs.?? As always, TIA.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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