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Snake

Snake

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Is this how to do this my book says the notch on the rocker shaft left side goes to the front of the engine and on the right bank the notch goes to the rear of the engine.Also and this sounds like alot it says to torque the rocker shaft down to 210 in lbs.thanksss again.
 
210" Lbs is 17.5 ft lbs, so that's OK but a hair on the high side if you're reusing stock bolts. 15 ft lbs is plenty and is the recommend torque per Jim Szilagyi, a MP engineer. A drop of loctite blue is good insurance.
 
If you are on the drivers side of the car, facing the engine, the notch should be down and in your left hand. If you are on the passenger side of the car, and facing the engine, the notch should be down and in your left had.

And I still have to think about it. Lol.
 

ramcharger said:
210" Lbs is 17.5 ft lbs, so that's OK but a hair on the high side if you're reusing stock bolts. 15 ft lbs is plenty and is the recommend torque per Jim Szilagyi, a MP engineer. A drop of loctite blue is good insurance.
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Oh boy someone gave me the wrong conversion from converting in pds to ft bs. They told me to multiply in pds by 12 then drop the last two digits and that is your ft/lb. Doing it this way which is the incorrect way 210" lbs would come out to 25 ft lbs and that is what I torqued my rocker assy down to. 10 ft lbs over is I think a liittle too much. Guess I'll have to back it down some...
 
Gator said:
Oh boy someone gave me the wrong conversion from converting in pds to ft bs. They told me to multiply in pds by 12 then drop the last two digits and that is your ft/lb. Doing it this way which is the incorrect way 210" lbs would come out to 25 ft lbs and that is what I torqued my rocker assy down to. 10 ft lbs over is I think a liittle too much. Guess I'll have to back it down some...
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Yeah divide 12 into 210 equals 17.5 ft/lbs.
 
Gator said:
Do you think 7.5 ft/lbs over the recommended 17.5 ft/lbs would be a problem? I'm thinking that its a cause for a bent push rod...Gonna retorque anyways.
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No I don't think that would contribute to the bent pushrod.
 
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