Heck if I remember the terminology, it was 98 degrees out at the time
and I was more worried about not burning myself by touching any metal
surface nearby and not collapsing from heat exhaustion. That black
anti-rust coating they put on the frame is really good at getting up to
skin-scalding temps in direct sunlight.
I just remember we had to tighten the pinion nut to a certain torque
that was over 250ft/lbs and had to "guess" past that point because we
maxed out the torque wrench before the pinion nut was snug enough to not
have a ton of play.
He's driven it a few thousand miles and towed a loaded trailer that was
so over the GCVW limit of the truck (the thing was made from parts off a
mobile home, including the axles and tires) that he had to downshift to
second to go up mild hills and it's still quiet and in one piece, so I
guess we got lucky. :)
M.B.
On 2/27/2011 11:18 AM, Michael Maskalans wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2011, at 12:19 AM, <mailinglists@moparhowto.com> wrote:
>
>> Sure was fun finding a torque wrench that went over 250ft/lb to
>> set the crush sleeve.
>
> Crush sleeves aren't set by torque.... they're set by preload.
>
> but if you had success I'm sure you did it right anyway :)
>
> Mike
>
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