shaaark89

good news/bad news (sort of)
pulled the tranny/torque tube on my 88 this week. had done the loctite fix last month to prevent tbf. well the good news is the fix seems to work. the driveshaft has not moved a bit. the bad news is that maybe it works too well, because i couldn't get the driveshaft out of the pinch collar despite heat, penetrating oil, a few well placed hits, etc. had to remove the pinch collar assembly from the flexplate and knck the driveshaft out from behind it with a hammer. interestingly i found several hardened "strips" of loctite in the splines. so for those of you who need torque tube replacement after the loctite fix, you may need to do it as i did. well worth protecting against tbf though.

Snowball the 81 white 928

what value are you going to torque those pinch collar bolts to?

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Max

Tom, I remember reading about this somewhere but can't remember where. What color did you use, Red, Green or Blue?

Cheers

Max

shaaark89

snowball,
the recommended torque to "prevent" tbf is 110% of normal or 66ftlbs.
max,
used green on the splines (penetrating) and red on the bolt threads. theres a pretty good writeup on greg nichols site under auto trans. <a href="http://www.nichols.nu/tips.htm" target="_blank">greg nichols site</a>

Snowball the 81 white 928

hey, i'm well aware of the torque value for collar pinchbolt and flexplate to flywheel. i was asking about pinch collar assy to flexplate. you got a torque value for that?

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