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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: meader on January 28, 2009, 17:50:29

Title: engine rebuild
Post by: meader on January 28, 2009, 17:50:29

i am in the middle of rebuilding my 300tdi engine. pistons in and big end caps on but wot i need is the torqe stettings settings for the big end caps nuts and head bolts oh and a pic pls of the way to tighten each bolt and wot order

Title: Re: engine rebuild
Post by: Les Henson on January 29, 2009, 21:31:08

Big end cap nuts should be 59Nm.
Head bolts are as follows -
Stage 1    -  40Nm
Stage 2    -  Further 60-deg
Stage 3    -  Further 60-deg
Stage 4    -  -Bolts 1,2,7,8,9,10,15,16,17,18 - further 20-deg.

Les.

Title: Re: engine rebuild
Post by: mobi on January 29, 2009, 23:34:59

thanks les, i give him my rave cd the other night.