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Hit 30 years old and finally noticed my torque sequence was backwards
I was helping my buddy swap a transmission in his 91 Civic last weekend and he watched me tighten the bellhousing bolts going around in a circle. He just laughed and asked if I was trying to warp the case on purpose. That's when it hit me that I had been doing a criss cross pattern all wrong for like 12 years. I always just went clockwise from the top left because that's how my dad did it on his trucks growing up. We had to pull the trans twice before I learned the hard way why you start from the middle and work outward. My buddy showed me a torque sequence diagram on his phone and it made perfect sense honestly. Has anyone else had that moment where a simple habit was totally off and nobody told you?
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jason7310d ago
Read a thing once that said most guys learn bolt patterns wrong from their dads.
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charles_kim10d ago
Yo that "most guys learn bolt patterns wrong from their dads" line hit me hard. My old man taught me to measure from one bolt to the one directly across from it, which is totally wrong for anything with an even number of lugs. Spent years swapping tires on my Honda wrong until a buddy at a shop laughed at me and showed me the actual way to check. It's wild how we just trust what our dads show us without double checking, especially with stuff that seems simple like this. Makes you wonder what other basic car stuff we all got taught backwards by well meaning folks.
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