legacycentral bbs

Hey ... Making progress on the motor swap, but ....

We were putting on a new water pump. The specs call for 7-10 Ft-Lbs. My torqe wrench like most is not goiod at that low of level. I guess we actually got them to closer to 20ft-lbs ish. Is that a problem in your experiances? 10 Ft-lbs seem to small, but ... OK please help and let me know if I really need to spend $100 for a real good torque wrench to get to 10 ft-lbs acurately.

Thanks

Terryg

Just use a 1/4" rachet with 10mm socket and tighten things snugly, but not too tight.

I used my small torque wrench that is in inch pounds. I put a little bit of blue locktight on them and torqued to 10 foot pounds (120 inch pounds).

So do you really think it was bad that we tightened them down to 20-30osh lb ft? I guess I could go return the sears Torque wrench which read 10-70 ft-lb for the smaller one that reads in in-lbs.

So last question. If I loosen up the bolts, then did I mess up the gaskets and need a nother new gasket or did I mess anything else up? If I leave it alone and they are overtorqued (but even) is that all that bad? I kind of want to just run with it, because the t-belt is on and it is buttoned up. The motor is not in yet, but tearing it down again and that damn t-belt tensioner is a pain.

Thanks

You'll probably be ok to leave them.