Bellhousing bolts

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#1 Bellhousing bolts

Post by jagwheels » Mon Jun 26, 2017 6:51 pm

Hi lads.
When bolting the bellhousing to the gearbox would you torque the bolts and then when bolting it to the engine does it get torqued.
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#2 Re: Bellhousing bolts

Post by Hugo » Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:07 am

There may be a torque figure for the gearbox to bellhsg bolts, but I've never heard of one for the bellhsg to engine bolts. The former want to be done up pretty damn tight (I would just do them by hand myself) but bellhsg to engine bolts are not so critical - I've never heard of a gearbox falling off a car! In any case you couldn't get a torque wrench in there if you wanted to once it's in the car.
Hugo Miller - rebuilding an imported Series II OTS & converting to RHD

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#3 Re: Bellhousing bolts

Post by jagwheels » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:42 pm

Thanks Hugo
That's kind of what I did think but just wanted to check
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#4 Re: Bellhousing bolts

Post by andrewh » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:44 pm

Totally agree for whats its worth
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