[Vwdiesel] Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Re: 85 VW Golf NA - No Go

[Shalyn Shourds]

> I've got another question.  Since my torque wrench only goes up to 150 
> ft-lbs and torquing the nut on the drive spline at the wheel is 195 
> ft-lbs, would over torqueing that nut cause a failure?  Reason I ask 
> is that I torque it to 150 then use a 4 foot pipe to finalize the 
> torque. I don't get too aggressive as I know I have a gorilla grip.


Shouldn't.  I take my 18" breaker bar and stand my 130# on the end of it 
and bounce.  I figure that gets me to ~195 ft/lbs.  I think it has more 
to do with the genuinely sorry rebuilt CV joints out there.  Maybe I 
just get lousy ones, but I've started just buying new joints and 
installing them on my axles.  It's always just the outer oine that's bad 
for me and I don't want to have to hammer the joints together like I 
have on some rebuilts.  (Yes, I know that's a terrible thing to do, 
that's why the joints were bad--they didn't fit back together.)  I've 
had some come back worse than the ones I sent to get rebuilt.  At the 
least, I have requested the rebuilt joint un-lubed and gotten a bag of 
grease a la carte`.  Keeps them from hiding a grinder special under a 
pint of grease.  Or, you can just find a rebuilder you trust.  I suppose 
they're out there somewhere....

-Shalyn the cynical.