Re: Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!

[geo <gamills@ns.sympatico.ca>]

Having replaced the timing belt on the 5kq I5 with the Paul Heneghan method of calibrating my wife, ie. placing my 110
lb. green eyed beauty three feet out on the bar to get 330 lb/ft of torque on the damper bolt, I now have a new variable.



> Subject       Damper Torque
>    Date:
>         Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:03:43
>
>
> Geo,
> Read your post re: 310 lbs of torque...
> My recollection is this is not enough.  The 310 lbs is the spec for when
> using a torque multiplier.
> You really want about twice that much.  i.e. a 200 lb person on the end of
> a three foot pipe.
> Dave C.
> David Conner  Columbus, OH
> '87 5KS, and '89 100E,  both w/ Boge TG
> '86 4KCSQ w/Koni Sport adj. & LOUD exhaust
>
  It has been many years since I was in a physics class, but I'm assuming force = weight x radius with the axis being
known.  I really don't want to go at this sucker again, at least for another 60k!  Any help on this would be greatly
appreciated.

geo