Lower A-arm torque specs

[George Beston <gbeston@xxxxxxxx>]

After reading Jon's last post, I went to my manual collection to see if 
I could clear up this point for those who are interested.

I found my workshop manual set dating back to my 105.48 1750 Berlina.  
Included in this set is a supplement to the Giulia manuals entitled 
"Technical Characteristics and Principal Inspection Specifications for 
1750 Berlina, GTV and Spider Veloce".  Inside the back cover, there is 
a publication number: 1321 - 2/1968

And the answer is - unfortunately very confusing.  Two torque 
specifications are given; 5.6 to 5.9 Kgm.  and 94 to 130 lb. ft .  
(These units are as printed in the manual)

I'm not sure I even understand what the quoted unit of Kgm. is.  
Kilogram meters is my guess.

Eyeballing the rest of the torque values in an extensive table tells me 
that the two torque values are very different, and my guess is that the 
94 to 130 lb.ft is a typo, because other specs with a similar Kgm.  
number are
more like 40 lb ft in the next column.

For what it's worth, I have (mistakenly, it seems) torqued these nuts 
to 90 ft pounds.  I did strip one of them which had some grease on the 
threads, but the others took it without stripping.

Jon (or anyone else) , I can send you a scan of the page I'm referring 
to if you're interested.  Contact me off-digest.

George Beston
Alfetta
Spider Jr
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