How easy is it to overtorque tranny pan?

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How easy is it to overtorque tranny pan?

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02-10-2005, 02:00 PM

Mike Richards Mike Richards is offline

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Torque on these bolts is only 8nM - newton meters. To get lbs. you take approx 3/4 of 8 and come up with 6 lbs - seems kinda light. I torque 'um up close to 10 lbs - no problems yet.

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