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Re: U-bolt torque specs?

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Subject: Re: U-bolt torque specs?
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:18:53 -0700
Are you sure it is positioned correctly on the locating "button"?


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 7/21/06 7:02 PM, Roger Wilt at rdwilt@pol.net wrote:

> In try to settle the rearend clunk in my "new" B,  I've noticed 2 things -
> despite the newer lower springs they did not replace bushings and I recall
> Kelvin's  rec for the polyurethane so those will be on order later tonight.
> The other was the U-bolts for the rear springs were only torqued to 20 lbs.
> BUT when I started tightening them the bottom plate appears to be bowing
> upward. Can that be??? The torque sheet off "MG experience" suggests 70lbs
> for a 9/16 bolt and I am nowhere near there. Suggestions? Keep tightening?
> Roger
> 51 TD
> 74 MGB




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