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This has recalled to my mind a torque "unfortunate mishap" occurrence to which I was party. While "training" in the rebuild process of a rotary screw compressor "air end" assembly, we came to about an M8 socket head cap screw with a very specific torque value as it was THE bolt that held the...

Also worth mentioning that all that stuff is just standard Caterpillar C7 torque values and the TM is just a (lowest bidder) reinterpretation of the Caterpillar manual specifications. And it goes without saying I think that all the threads need to be clean and undamaged, the bolts all in the...

Didn't like my answer eh? The TM instructions are difficult to decipher because the item numbers and illustrations don't coordinate well. The TM also provides essentially the same torque chart I suggested (which all originate from the machinists handbook). Here's the chart from the TM itself...