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Thanks John! Now I must wait for the timing chains and rails to arrive before I can proceed any further. Should be here later this week. Then I can set the crankshaft and carrier into the LH case half and start thinking about assembling the two halves. That will be a big step!
I didn’t like it then and still don’t like it! Decided to upgrade my torque wrench with a digital one that has an angle torque gauge built in. Watched a few YouTube videos and now being an informed shopper went to Harbor Freight and purchased one using a 25% off coupon.
I’ll share my results soon. If you’re not familiar with angle torque there are videos online explains why manufacturers have all gone to this new (in the last twenty years or so:-) method of tightening fasteners.
The issue I ran into on my recent job is some of the fasteners on the 996 are down around the 5-6NM range, which is more like 3 ft lbs.
I bit the bullet and bought the AC Delco 1.11 – 22.12 ft-lbs. one to fill in the gap below what my current torque wrenches supported. The AC Delco appears to be the snap-on wrench, but I'm guessing much cheaper.
In the past I've been pretty good at hand tightening bolts and nuts, but I've read too many stories on here of you guys having to deal with messes caused by a PO over tightening a fastener, so I'm not going to be "that guy".
I have many torque wrenches covering a number of ranges and different applications. I used to buy into the electronic ones but after a couple of them flat out failed, I stop buying the electronic "too fragile" for real environment wrenches. I still have one electronic one but that gets used almost never now. The rest are all mechanical clickers.
I have four that I use for really precision work, ranging from a few lb.ft to 250 lbft. Then I have one permanently set at 75 lbs for tires. And one more that goes up to 600 lb-ft for that pesky CV shaft nut.
I too poses a range of analog torque wrenches 1/4” 3/8” and /1/2” drive. This was purchased primarily to deal with the angle torque settings that Porsche specifies on the con rod , crankshaft carrier and cylinder head bolts..
I took the RH case half to a laser welder to repair a stripped and butchered hole in one of the “new” case halves. If it weren’t for the already electric negated hole I would have used a helicopter. The whole is a small 6mm thread size on the chain case where the cylinder head and block mate. Thought about using JB weld..... 😳 as the torque value is less than 10 lbs./ft.
Oh well, we will all sleep better tonight 😉
Last edited by carlvs; 07-22-2019 at 03:59 PM.
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I too poses a range of analog torque wrenches 1/4” 3/8” and /1/2” drive. This was purchased primarily to deal with the angle torque settings that Porsche specifies on the con rod , crankshaft carrier and cylinder head bolts..
I took the RH case half to a laser welder to repair a stripped and butchered hole in one of the “new” case halves. If it weren’t for the already electric negated hole I would have used a helicopter. The whole is a small 6mm thread size on the chain case where the cylinder head and block mate. Thought about using JB weld..... 😳 as the torque value is less than 10 lbs./ft.
That's a subject for a whole new thread. I can't wait to see that...
07-21-2019, 06:46 AM
Crank in carrier and torqued.
