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Owen, You are definitely right! This thread is a really good exercise in reality and a first class "brain check" for everybody that works on trucks.
You can't really U N D E R S T A N D torque and how important it is - until you put on a tire, don't get it right - and the tire comes off...
Pretty amazing Will...
Who knows, maybe we were just lucky but the only thing that ever got a torque wrench applied to it 40 years ago when I was turning wrenches on big trucks was the engine, hogshead, transmission and transfer case.
It wasn't at all abnormal to use the impact gun (Ingersol...
Dipstick,
That is an outstanding chart. A big number of the bolts on these MVs will be Grade 5 and the other values for Grade 8 were offered up by frank8003 so we have everything we need.
Yes Sir! Handy "cheat notes" are a wonderful thing. Especially when you are tired from a day of...