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Kristian

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7th Jul, 2011 at 07:41:56pm

I'm having trouble re-building my diff.



I'm using brand new "high tensile" Mini Spares bolts, fitted dry, with new locktabs (which appear to be made of soft cheese!) but everytime I torque them up they begin to stretch waaaay bfore the torque setting of 60 lbf ft (81 Nm). I used a cheapo Draper torque wrench to begin with but thinking it was that I borrowed a 3/8" Snap On torque wrench, same problem though *oh well*

Does anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? The locktabs seem to be very deformed after removing the bolts. Has anyone done away with then and used thread lock instead?

Edited by Kristian on 7th Jul, 2011.


Joe C

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Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex

7th Jul, 2011 at 07:43:45pm

I'd bin the tabs and use thread lock.

On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1

https://joe1977.imgbb.com/



paul wiginton
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7th Jul, 2011 at 07:53:04pm

As joe says

I seriously doubt it!

Kristian

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7th Jul, 2011 at 08:00:27pm

Ok, they'll be going in the bin then, thanks for your help :)
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