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Old 11-05-2006, 11:48 AM   #126 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by brgelise
I was amazed at how loose those bolts were when I was changing my oil last month. I doubt they were at 30ft/lbs torque. Probably had them on there way to getting loose by running hard at LRP in June. Had me knocking out consistent 63-64's which is getting well into the cabailities of the car. I recommend all people check this!! It took ~ a full turn to get up to 50ft/lbs!
Umm. You've overtightened it. The old spec was 50 Nm, now 60 Nm.

The current spec is 44 ft/lbs. Not 50.
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