Re: [DMCForum] Torque question

["Andrei Cular" <acular@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a handy little table somewhere that gives standard torques based on
bolt size, wet or dry, gasket type or non-gasket.

What size studs hold it on?  and are you using standard exhaust gasket or
something special?


Andrei




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>
To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Torque question


> > What are the torque settings for the exhaust manifold?
>
> That's a damn good question Travis!  When Adam and I put the manifolds
on
> his car, I just went by the German word for good pussy -- gutentiet
> (Good'n-tight).  The problems is -- even if we knew the torque spec for
> that, it would probably be a dry torque.  And only a mechanic in a hurry
for
> a quick profit would put new studs in dry.  I wouldn't recommend that.
We
> used copious amounts of high-temp copper anti-seize.  But this reduces
> friction so well that if you went by the dry torque then you would have
to
> decrease the amount by somewhere between 1/4 to 1/2.  Since I didn't
know
> what the proper torque was anyway, I threw caution to the wind and made
them
> gutentiet -- basically going by feel to judge when they felt like they
were
> getting tight enough such that any tighter might over-stress something.
So
> far so good.  If we hadn't been up all night making this car drivable so
> that Adam could get home, I would have put a torque wrench on there to
see
> just how tight I might have made them.
>
> Walt
>
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