poohbear Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Hi all, can somebody tell me the troque setting for the crank bolt please - 200Tdi, 30mm bolt? I seem to remember reading something on hereto pull it up to about 60Nm (or was it 80?) and then 90' more - but can't find any threads relating to this. Thanks chaps, Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb78 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Hi all,can somebody tell me the troque setting for the crank bolt please - 200Tdi, 30mm bolt? I seem to remember reading something on hereto pull it up to about 60Nm (or was it 80?) and then 90' more - but can't find any threads relating to this. Thanks chaps, Dave. Its much tighter than that... The workshop manual says 333-350nm which is about 245-258 lb/ft. Its BLOOMIN tight - my torque wrench doesn't go anywhere near that and since it needed an extension bar and all my strength to undo it i did the same to do it back up after i'd made a tool to bolt to the pulley and lock it on the chassis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nibbles Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 it is 260 lb/ft locktite must be used as well and after a 100 miles or so recheck and re torque. you don't want it to come off. i've seen it happen the front cover is scrap and so is the engine if you are unlucky for it to snap the timing belt as the pully comes of with key in the crank snaped off. so if can't torque it do it f**king tight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohbear Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 Thats the problem - my wrench will only measure up to 200NM! I'm sure I read about part torque-ing and then adding another 90' - perhaps I'll just leave it until I can source a bigger wrench - Or I'll just pull it as tight as humanly possible. I used a 6 foot length of scaff to undo it on the end of my breaker bar , that should get some NM behind it Cheers Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb78 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Thats the problem - my wrench will only measure up to 200NM!I'm sure I read about part torque-ing and then adding another 90' - perhaps I'll just leave it until I can source a bigger wrench - Or I'll just pull it as tight as humanly possible. I used a 6 foot length of scaff to undo it on the end of my breaker bar , that should get some NM behind it Cheers Dave. I found that torque wrenches that go that tight are really expensive - so i did what you said above on my 200tdi and put a long bar on the end of the wrench and did up really tight! Suprisingly, when i undid the crank bolt on my old 19J which had been to a garage and had the timing belt done. It was not very tight at all to undo and there was no loctite on the bolt. Add in £400 to do the belt (which was the last straw in getting garages to work on this vehicle) and it was not a well done job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat_J Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 You can often undo it by sticking a breaker bar against the chassis and flicking the starter. Dunno if you're supposed to but it breaks it off so it can be undone properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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