[tcb] Re: that wierd noise
- From: "Gerald V. Livingston II" <gvl2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:30:44 -0500 (Central Standard Time)
Now, get your BAW and go out there and TAKE THAT NUT BACK OFF!!!
I'm surprised no one else has mentioned this.
Read this: http://www.type2.com/bartnik/torque.htm
I don't have the specs handy but I think the torque for an IRS bus rear
axle nut is suposed to be 267 ft/lbs.
Tighten it more than that and you will destroy your bearings (and possibly
other bits and oieces, I'd have to look at a diagram) within a few thousand
miles.
VW wrote the torque specifications for a reason. I've met you and your Dad.
Like me, you are ... not gravity friendly. ;-)
Both of you on the end of a wrench or cheater pipe more than 1 foot long
would definitely over torque that nut. Me, alone, would have to use a 14"
handle for 267 ft/lbs.
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:31:16 -0500 Brian Denning
<i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> back i noticed the axlenut was just about to fall off. so i hand tighten it
> because i have no wrenches with me and drive 10mph stopping every minute to
> tighten the nut. finally i run into this guy planting flowers and ask him if
> he has a pipewrench or something and he does so i tighten it. then he whips
> out this 1/4 inch thick 3" pipe and says here is some leverage for you so i
> litterally raise my self up off the ground then i roll the bus forward and
> get another good full turn on it and he then gives me a carter pin and says
> bet you need one of these too. so i put the new pin in and off i go still
> limping it because i am scared out of my mind that the wheel will fall off
> at any moment. get to my dads house pull the pin and tighen it a bit but not
> much so i get him to help (for those who have seen my dad, he isn't a small
> guy). we both put our weight on it to get the nut to where i can put the pin
> back in.
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