Re: Spider fly wheels bolts

["Phil Williams" <willamp@domain.elided>]

Ralph, the factory spider manual specifies loc-tight red for use when
reinstalling the flywheel bolts. I don't remember the torque setting.

So that's what I did.

Phil Williams
3 spiders and a platinum

> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: 6 May 99 09:34:49 CDT
> From: Ralph Moorhouse <ralfalfa@domain.elided>
> Subject: Spider fly wheels bolts
> 
> Removed the flywheel on the '74 SPider last night to replace rear seal
(w=
> ith
> help from Tom Norton etal - thanks).  What was apparent is that the
bolts=
>  had
> been loc-tighted in the past.  Now the Haynes manual indicates that the
b=
> olts
> should be tightened to some specified torque with OILED threads!
> 
> So my question is... to oil or loc-tight, which is correct??
> 
> BTW; two of us could not remove the trans from engine (in the car) so
bot=
> h
> came out last night.  We had wrestled the trans for 3 hrs (slow
learners?=
> ?!!)@
> the week end - it was hung up around the locating pin just above the
star=
> ter -
> corrosion...25 yrs takes its toll!!!  Even with whole unit out on the
flo=
> or it
> took a fair bit of effort to separate.  The moral of this story...it's
no=
> t
> much more effort to remove both eng & trans when replacing
clutch...which=
>  is
> why this exercise started! Lots of life left on clutch plate but we
think=
>  the
> pressure plate must have failed to cause the sudden clutch slippage
> experienced - everything else looks OK(??).
> 
> Ralph
> Houston, TX
> 
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