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Posted by The Older Gentleman on May 5, 2006, 3:11 am
> Did you use a torque wrench on the bolt? Sometimes there are mistakes in
> the factory manual, I seem to remember a guy complaining that he snapped
> more than one cam cover bolt on a Suzuki, because he blindly followed the
> printed torque spec for those bolts in his genuine Suzuki shop manual.
> The manual clearly specified way too much torque for those little 6mm
> bolts.
Yup, the Haynes air-cooled Kawasaki 750 series manual had the same error
for the camshaft caps. Quoted something like 73ft/lbs, IIRC. Like you
said, I read the torque reading and thought: "No, wrong....."
They'd misplaced a decimal point.
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Trophy 1200 750SS CB400F CD250 Morini 500 Sport
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....
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