Re: [T3] another question - engine assembly

[Jens Vagelpohl <jens@type4.org>]

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On Feb 9, 2005, at 3:52, Jim Adney wrote:
> Your memory is correct. The nuts with the plastic inserts were 
> introduced in
> '70 or '71 but the engines that came with them also got the O-rings 
> which had
> been introduced a few years earlier. I'm not actually sure whether the 
> late
> nuts were meant to reduce oil leaks or to lock the nuts in place. They 
> actually
> seem to do both.
>
> The one disadvantage of those late nuts is that you are only supposed 
> to torque
> them to a lesser torque. I prefer to use the higher torque and Loctite.

Now I remember what I got confused: The little O-rings are inside the 
crancase, you need to slip them onto the bolts before you mated the two 
halves :)

It's true that the plastic sleeve nuts were torqued to a specific lower 
torque, but I haven't seen any problems due to the lower torque.

jens

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