[DeTomaso] Torque specs for the pressure plate / new pilot install

[Mike Thomas]

Still have the steel fly

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Drew [mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 12:37 PM
To: Joseph F. Byrd, Jr. <byrdjf at embarqmail.com>
Cc: Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net>; <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
<detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Torque specs for the pressure plate / new pilot
install

Further to this line of questioning, is the torque spec different for iron
vs aluminum flywheels?

I didn't trust the relatively small Ford bolts in my aluminum flywheel so
had it machined to accept larger Chevy bolts which also required enlarging
the holes in the clutch. 

Mike

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On Jan 29, 2017, at 10:23, "Joseph F. Byrd, Jr." <byrdjf at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> Just my curiousity;
> 
> as for installing the pilot bearing.  Would there be a desired press fit?
> And thus the crank female fit be reamed/honed to match the bearing?
> 
> As for the torques; would the flywheel bolts be 7/16-20 and the 
> pressure plate bolts 5/16-18?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On 
> Behalf Of Mike Thomas
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 14:10 PM
> To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Torque specs for the pressure plate / new pilot 
> install
> 
> Just need a refresh on torque specs for the pressure plate.  I think 
> it's 35 lbs., but don't recall.  I know the fly is 80 lbs.
> 
> Test fitting the new pilot after struggles removing the old indicate 
> this one will be every bit as tight a fit.  While not planning to 
> remove it any time soon, is there anything I ought/could do to reduce 
> it's resistance in the future?
> 
> Thanks all
> Mike Thomas
> Pres., Panteras Northwest
> Yellow '74 #6328
> 
> 
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