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Re: [T3] Drilling and tapping steering knuckle


On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:18, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 26 Mar 2003 at 21:05, Jim Adney wrote:
> 
> > On 26 Mar 2003 at 23:12, Dave Hall wrote:
> > 
> > > Is this a caliper mounting bolt hole we're talking about?  That's M12, isn't it,
> > > or have I confused two different posts?
> > 
> > His is a 69, so I thought that was an M8, or am I wrong and they are really an 
> > M10? The later (72-3) caliper mounting bolts were 2mm bigger.
> 
> Yeah, I was wrong. I should RTFM.
> 
> early (66-71) caliper mounting bolts: M10 (x 1.5?)
> 
> late (72-3) are M12 (x 1.5?)
> 
> This was wrong in Bentley AND in Service Without Guesswork, too! I had to 
> measure calipers to make sure.
> 
I just looked, and my 1960 through 1970 Service without Guesswork book
calls the caliper to knuckle bolt out as M10 and 29 ft lbs torque.

-- 
Russ Wolfe
'66 FB MT
'71 FB AT 
'65 Bug (not running)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org



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