Steering wheel nut torque
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Steering wheel nut torque
Hi Guys,
After our saga with the rag joint failure, we followed everybody's advice and replaced it with a Borgeson anti vibration universal. All went fine with the install, except that I was a spline more off than I wanted to be for steering wheel centering. I had a puller and had the steering wheel off in no time, and made the adjustment. Not a big deal, but I cannot find torque specs for the steering wheel nut anywhere. I found for a few vehicles as low as 26 lb/ft, to as high as 60. I was going to go to 60 or 80, but backed it off and left it at 40. Does anybody know what it REALLY should be?
Thanks!
After our saga with the rag joint failure, we followed everybody's advice and replaced it with a Borgeson anti vibration universal. All went fine with the install, except that I was a spline more off than I wanted to be for steering wheel centering. I had a puller and had the steering wheel off in no time, and made the adjustment. Not a big deal, but I cannot find torque specs for the steering wheel nut anywhere. I found for a few vehicles as low as 26 lb/ft, to as high as 60. I was going to go to 60 or 80, but backed it off and left it at 40. Does anybody know what it REALLY should be?
Thanks!
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Years ago a buddy of mine bought a 74 or 75 F100. He had had it for several months and brought it by the shop because he wanted me to "help" him change the turn signal switch, we all know how that works
. Anyway, I removed the horn bar and the first thing I saw was there was no nut for the steering wheel! He never knew. Never figured out why, there was no nut laying in the steering wheel so someone had to have removed it but who knows?
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I don't think that would be a problem.
Years ago a buddy of mine bought a 74 or 75 F100. He had had it for several months and brought it by the shop because he wanted me to "help" him change the turn signal switch, we all know how that works. Anyway, I removed the horn bar and the first thing I saw was there was no nut for the steering wheel! He never knew. Never figured out why, there was no nut laying in the steering wheel so someone had to have removed it but who knows?
Years ago a buddy of mine bought a 74 or 75 F100. He had had it for several months and brought it by the shop because he wanted me to "help" him change the turn signal switch, we all know how that works
. Anyway, I removed the horn bar and the first thing I saw was there was no nut for the steering wheel! He never knew. Never figured out why, there was no nut laying in the steering wheel so someone had to have removed it but who knows?
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My '77's steering wheel nut is a steel self locking nut. Once I snug it with a ratchet & socket, I'm done. Maybe 15 ft lbs.
There's no way it's ever gonna back off on it's own and I always need a puller to pull the wheel with just that.
Most recently, had it off last year to replace shift lever collar and again early this year to replace turn signal cancel part (I think I maybe slipped wheel back on after shift collar R&R with signal lever in rt turn position and it broke the cancel arm on that side) and then a couple times to "center" it better.
There's no way it's ever gonna back off on it's own and I always need a puller to pull the wheel with just that.
Most recently, had it off last year to replace shift lever collar and again early this year to replace turn signal cancel part (I think I maybe slipped wheel back on after shift collar R&R with signal lever in rt turn position and it broke the cancel arm on that side) and then a couple times to "center" it better.
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