The factory service manual should give you a torque value. The later
manuals give a rotating torque for the shaft of a few inch oz. You
are crushing a collar inside on the shaft to set the preload so don't
over do it because you cannot back it off it you set it too much. It
takes a lot of FT Lbs on the nut to crush the collar. When you get
close do 1/16 of a turn increments. It most likely will require a
cheater bar handle extender to get enough torque to turn the nut.


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:42:38 GMT, "JP" > wrote:

>
>The pinion nut of my 1976 Dodge Royal Monaco loosened. Does the Chrysler
>Corporation Car Production Broadcast paper that I found under the car seat
>show pinion
>bearing preload and pinion nut torque? On the paper there is PIN valued
>at 26 and P/Shaft valued at 251. Are these the factory settings of the
>pinion bearing preload and
>pinion nut torque? If not, is there a way to
>determine these through the papers.
>
>Does anyone know the pinion bearing preload and
>pinion nut torque that the factory used for a 1976 Dodge Royal
>Monaco?
>
>Thank you for a reply to this newsgroup,
>
>J. Pallendino
>Cleveland, Ohio USA
>
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