Chris,
What do you mean by overcoming the residual torque? Is that loosening the bolt
a bit, or a lot, and then retightening right up to the spec? Doing this one
bolt at a time right?
thanks,
Linda
68 1600
Chris wrote
>A bolt that's been tightened, and has been sitting for a while will
>have some residual "sticktion" in it. It's possible that this bolt
>is under-stretched, and if you don't overcome the residual torque in
>the bolt when re-torquing, you'll miss the spec. In a critical
>application, I will always loosen the bolts, and then re-torque,
>normally one at a time.
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