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Re: torque setting

To: Steven Tritle <stritle@epix.net>, JMerz140@aol.com
Subject: Re: torque setting
From: Skip Kelsey <kelsey@value.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:21:46 -0700
Steve:

Dont torque the 8MM rocker bolts more than 20PSI. The prior specs given by
Woods is not correct. The 10MM bolts should go 40-42PSI.

Skip.......At 10:19 AM 10/15/97 -0400, Steven Tritle wrote:
>JMerz140@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> Steve,
>> There are only four brackets on the XPAG engine of your TD.  Once the eight
>> bolts are removed, the whole assembly simply lifts off the head.  Torque
>> value for the 10mm bolts is 43 ft/lb and for the 8mm, its 29 ft/lbs.  In
most
>> cases, you'll probably need a set of four keepers to hold the bolts in
place
>> after the torque is set.  The old ones may be salvable but many times the
>> tabs are ready to break off from too much bending.
>> Make sure you lay the parts out in order to reassemble in the exact
order of
>> disassembly.  Especially the shaft.  It has an oil hole at the rear bracket
>> to pass the oil under pressure to lubricate the whole rocker set-up.  If it
>> gets in bass-ackwards...
>> no oil and there goes the rocker bushings.  Jim
>There are homemade shims under the rocker brackets of my TD's shaft
>assembly. I am replacing one cracked bracket. The four brackets all have
>"22914 stamped on them and my new one does not. The size etc. seems to
>be OK. Should I be wary? 
>
>Everything else seems to be in order.
>
>Steve
>52 TD
>
>


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