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Sep 25, 2016 11.5 Assembly, Torque Gland Nut Category: Engine
Assembly of external engine components, manual pages 29-35 and 40-42 while waiting on back-ordered head assemblies to ship.
To torque the gland nut, used the body weight torque technique. The method is modified from Wilson "How to rebuild your Volkswagen Air-Cooled Engine". Rather than pushing down on the 'cheater bar', the AeorVee was bolted to a wood frame with two anti-torque plates holding the motor in place.

A 1/2" breaker bar with a cheater made from a motorcycle fork tube was used as the lever. Desired torque in the neighborhood of 300 ft-lbs (315 ft-lbs, Wilson, pg126); 315/200 = 1.575 * 12 = 18.9 = 19 inch lever arm marked on fork tube. Alignment mark on breaker/fork. Used a seated pull-up to use my body weight to supply the correct amount of force. Discernible movement of the gland nut, movement between marks on nut and flywheel.


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