[Healeys] Steering arm torque

[warthodson at aol.com]

The steering arm is tapered & splied, but the nut is not. It also does not use
a lock washer. It does use a cotter pin.
Gary Hodson

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Porter <frogeye at porterscustom.com>
To: 'Herb Miller' <hgmiller3 at qwest.net>; healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:11 pm
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Steering arm torque


Herb,
Just a "WAG" as they say, but if 80 ft lbs is good for lug nuts, I'd guess
00 is sufficient for that nut. Since it is probably both tapered and
plined and uses a lock washer to boot, it isn't going to come apart without
 puller after once being tightened.  Using torque valves is really only
mportant when one needs to have even clamping over a multi-fastener object
r when delicate threads might be damaged from over tightening.
Engineers? Your thoughts..
frogeye at porterscustom.com
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