What Torque Settings?

[TVR-Stu]

Hi everyone, just completing the front end refurb and have put the wishbones back in situ with ther nice new bushes. My problem is I have no idea how much to torque up the fixing bolts. Is it a case of as much as you can?

Tried using the search facility but haven't been able to find an answer.

Thanks in advance, Stu.

[Stew Mc]

Not sure of the torque figures but I would torque up at the correct ride height. Wheels on the ground or jack the suspension up to what would be as close to a normal position for the suspension arms. The bushes will not be stressed or twisted when the car is back on the road.
I am sure someone will be along with the correct figures shortly.
Stew.

[phillpot]

Never bothered with torque settings on suspension, if you're using new nylok nuts just "sensibly" tight should be fine (imho)

[Mr Plow]

I used this when I did mine.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Cheers

Liam

[TVR-Stu]

Thanks all, will remember to tighten up everything fully when the car is sat on the ground.

It's great to have the input from people who have done these tasks before, thanks again.

[Gerald-TVR]

OCRed the list and edited!!

Could we have a sence check please techie types, got a couple of questions:
1 Rear wishbones??
2 Top rear diff bush pinch bolt??

Are these setting for an S or possibly Griff/Chim??

Could add as FAQ once checked

Can email as a word doc if anyone wants a copy

Component	ft lbs	Nm
Caliper to front upright	43-44	50-60
Track rod end to upright	30-35	40-47
Bottom ball joint to upright	60-65	81-88
Top ball joint to upright	60-65	81-88
Upper ball joint adapter pinch bolt	59-66	80-89
Top front wishbone to ball joint HSG	35-40	47-54
Bottom wishbone to ball joint HSG	12-15	16-20
Steering rack mountings	12-15	16-20
Steering UJ clamp bolts	12-15	16-20
Front & rear hub retaining nuts	229-258	310-350
Rear caliper to bearing carrier	40-45	54-61
Rear bearing carrier to upright 1	45-48	61-65
Differential front allen bolts	90-100	122-136
Differential bushes to chassis	48-55	65-75
Rear diff carrier to diff (cap head)	33-36	45-52
Top rear diff bush pinch bolt	45-50	61-65
All front wishbones to chassis	45-50	61-65
All rear wishbones to chassis	45-50	61-68
All rear wishbones to upright	45-50	61-65
All damper bolts	55-60	75-81
Roll bar mounting clamp to chassis	30-35	40-47
Drive shaft bolts to diff	32-35	38-40
Drive shaft bolts to axle shafts	32-35	38-40
Seat belt anchorage bolts	25-30	34-41
Wheel nuts	73-77	99-104
Brake master cyl to servo	15-20	20-27
Front cross member	45-50	61-68
Gearbox cross member	45-50	61-68

[ketvrin]

thats great info Norman would it be possible to incorporate it somehow in Chris' S-Bolts list WIKI ?

K

[TVR-Stu]

Norman, I followed Mr Plows' (Liam) link and it did seem to relate to the Chimaera and Griffith but I could be wrong. There must be similarities though.

[Gerald-TVR]

Kevin

Have had a quick look as it was my first thought but not completly straight forward and it is Chris's list, but a definate maybe.

Stue

Yep my thoughts as well but the settings I am aware of eg hub nuts/wheel nuts are close and the cars are very similar. I think thy are a better guide than no guide at all.

Norman

[Barkychoc]

Norman / anyone else, I really don't regard any of the list info as 'mine', its a communal forum IMHO where we all chip in for the benefit of all.

I have for now cut and pasted the list onto the end of the bolts list as I think the information is too useful to let slip away down the forums.

I don't really have the time to tidy it up at the moment but anyone else who wants to have a go feel free, I always do a full cut and paste into notepad or something before I start and then save it to my hard drive, then if I it up I can paste it back in and noone knows what a balls up I made!

It might be worth adding a contents list, have a look at the useful links wiki for how that works (by clicking 'update this list' and looking at the code), it is fairly easy but isn't documented anywhere as far as I can tell you just have to work it out!

[Barkychoc]

Contents list added.

[Gerald-TVR]

Hi Chris

Should we caveat the torque settings as there is a little doubt exactly what car they refer to?

Norman

[jmd68]

Hello everyone,
does anyone have the torque settings for the steering swivel joint to the steering rack?

Thx!

JM

[TVR-Stu]

Not to sure which joint you mean, but the universal joint torque setting is in the table above. 12 - 15ft lbs or 16 - 20 Nm.
At least I think that's the setting I went with and nothing has fallen off so far.

[v8s4me]

jmd68 said:

.....does anyone have the torque settings for the steering swivel joint to the steering rack?
........

The steering swivel joint to the steering rack?

Which connection is that? The rack is bolted to the chassis and the ends are connected to the wheels via the track-rod ends. If you mean the track rod end to upright then that's listed on the table above