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For the 13 bolts around the trans pan on a TH 400, is 144 inch lbs good? I’m switching to a lube locker gasket as I just had a catastrophic failure using a Fel Pro gasket made of black rubber.
I’m providing a picture of the torque wrenches I use, I’m always leery that I can trust this type or model of torque wrench. Anyone ever use this one, are they good to use?
There’s no model number or anything stamped on this wrench. Mine starts at 10 foot ponds, the one pictured starts at 20. I’m wondering if Craftsman had to change this scale for accuracy?
I’ll use the inch ponds wrench of this model so I can do half of 144 on the first go around rather than fooling with 13 ft lbs without any way of going below 10 ft lbs. make sense?
Thanks
Rich
Sounds good. IF the NEW gasket is made of "rubber" sometimes using a silicone sealer will cause the gasket to bulge and leak.
It's a pain, but the First thing I do after cleaning the pan is to lay it upside-down on a flat counter-top to mark areas where the sealing area is deformed.
Then I use a "plastic-tipped" hammer to flatten the bulges.
Does your new gasket have the plastic inserts in the gasket holes to prevent over-torqueing?
No plastic safeguards in these gaskets. I did lay the pan down on my granite counter top and tried to slip a paper business card underneath - all good. I was told to use a thin smear of ATV perm a gasket on the pan to hold the gasket in place, this was a bad idea. Pats Garage I think hit it correctly when he said the internet torque number was for the old style cork gasket, not the rubber.
The T wrench shown is a 1/2” drive. Mine is 3/8” thus the different scale on the wrench. I understand the beam style torque wrench is very accurate.
Torque Trans bolts
