Clutch case bolt torque settings Please

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Clutch case bolt torque settings Please

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I have had a look in the search box, but it comes up blank. so for the sake of searching through loads of posts. can someone tell me the torque settings for the clutch case bolts please. I take it wont be much?

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I found it quite hard to find the value in the manual as it's not listed specifically but rather as '6 mm flange bolt, 8 mm head, small flange' (assuming that's correct and it's not the 'large flange' version) and the value for that is 10 Nm.
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Cheers guys. And thanks for the PDF manual Mac. that will come in very handy of the coming months :thumbup:
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Just nip the up by feel. What's more important with things like that is to tighten them evenly and in a criss cross pattern.
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VTRDark wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:27 am Just nip the up by feel. What's more important with things like that is to tighten them evenly and in a criss cross pattern.
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VTRDark wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:27 am Just nip the up by feel. What's more important with things like that is to tighten them evenly and in a criss cross pattern.
Quite agree. I have a number of torque wrenches of different values and I'm becoming very wary of using them. With experience you get a feel for these things and my general SOP is to tighten things to as little as possible and, if you are worried they might come undone, use a thread locking compound. I use a lot of copaslip as well to stop corrosion which provides lubricant for the thread.

The Aprilias are know to crack the sump when the sump plug is over-tightened. Torque settings are usually given for a dry and clean thread and, of course, that rarely happens with a sump plug. Lubrication can reduce the torque required to produce the required bolt expension and clamping force by up to 50%. An oily thread can then be very overtightened using specified torque with unwanted consequences.
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KermitLeFrog wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:13 am
VTRDark wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:27 am Just nip the up by feel. What's more important with things like that is to tighten them evenly and in a criss cross pattern.
Quite agree. I have a number of torque wrenches of different values and I'm becoming very wary of using them. With experience you get a feel for these things and my general SOP is to tighten things to as little as possible and, if you are worried they might come undone, use a thread locking compound. I use a lot of copaslip as well to stop corrosion which provides lubricant for the thread.

The Aprilias are know to crack the sump when the sump plug is over-tightened. Torque settings are usually given for a dry and clean thread and, of course, that rarely happens with a sump plug. Lubrication can reduce the torque required to produce the required bolt expension and clamping force by up to 50%. An oily thread can then be very overtightened using specified torque with unwanted consequences.
possibly a daft question, Are you saying you use Locking compound and copper grease, or one or the other? As i have never used both in the fear it would counter act the locking compound.

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Sometimes copaslip. Sometimes locking compound but, as you say, never the both together. Sometimes nothing at all....

I HATE aluminium screwed fixings. A work of the devil. If I HAVE to use them (e.g. flywheel inspection caps) they will never go in dry.
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