T. J. Higgins asks:
> In my shop manual, I can't find a torque value for the Alpine's axle
> nuts (the nuts that hold the hub onto the axle). When my dad and I
> put the hubs from the parts car on, we basically tightened them as
> tight as we could get them. This turned out to be about 120 ft-lbs,
> using a low-budget Sears torque wrench. Should these nuts be torqued
> to a specific value, or just as tight as we can get them?
You don't mention if this is front or rear. JZ and I had the same
question come up on the rear hub retaining nuts on his bugeye
yesterday. I kinda shrugged stupidly because Haynes recommended
driving the 8-sided nuts on with a hammer on the early B axle.
The sprite clearly had a six-sided nut and Jeffie had a socket that
fit it.
When he dug through notes supplied to him with the car, they
recommended 125 ft*lbs. We translated this to "secure." I'd guess
the alpine would be somewhere in the same ball park.
andy
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