<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Obviously these engines were designed before standardized measurements and "foot" and "pound" depended upon who was the then-current King of England. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">As said, the nuts on my car are not crenellated and I am going to go with a new-fangled invention called the torque wrench and the numbers suggested. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Thanks all and fingers (not digits) crossed--Michael Oritt</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:14 AM, <a href="mailto:josef-eckert@t-online.de" target="_blank">josef-eckert@t-online.de</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josef-eckert@t-online.de" target="_blank">josef-eckert@t-online.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">Michael,<br></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">originally castellated nuts were used. Tighten as good as you can and turn back to nearest slot.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">At the time the Austin-Healey 100 was out there were not many torque settings given. Roger Menadue (works chief mechanic at Warwick) never used a torque wrench. He got a golden one as a present at Le Mans 1963 as best mechanic. He put it in his tool box but never used it.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none">So my suggestion, tighten as good as you can or use the torque settings for the 6cylinder engines</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Betreff: [Healeys] Torque settings needed</p>
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<p style="margin:0px">Von: "Michael Oritt" <<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.oritt@gmail.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin:0px">An: "Austin Healey" <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>></p><div><div class="m_-1513088925471079735h5">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa">I am about to replace the connecting rod and center main bearings on my 100 and do not understand the following statement in the Service Manual: </span><br style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa"><br style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa"><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa">"Main Bearing Stud Nuts/Connecting rod big end nuts.....................Caste<wbr>llated-tighten to Nr. Slot."</span><br style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa"><br style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa"><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa">The rod and main cap nuts are not castellated and even if they were shouldn't there be a torque value given?</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:#fafafa">Best--Michael Oritt</span></div>
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