Been through all my manuals and cannot find anywhere what the proper torque setting is for the brass nuts on the exhaust manifold. What say the experts?
Griz
There wasn't a torque given for the intake manifold either. In any event you can't get a torque wrench on the intake manifold nuts, just the exhaust. Them being brass, I didn't want to over torque them, but I wanted them tight enough to compress the manifold gasket slightly.
Don't mean to be rude, but you're over-thinking this - just snug them up. Brass nuts aren't prone to stripping.
There wasn't a torque given for the intake manifold either. In any event you can't get a torque wrench on the intake manifold nuts, just the exhaust. Them being brass, I didn't want to over torque them, but I wanted them tight enough to compress the manifold gasket slightly.
Roger Menadue, the chief mechanic at Warwick, never used a torque wrench, as
> he once told me when I met him. You should feel it in your hands he said,
WE DO!!! my Snap-on torque wrench feels great in my hands.
He told me that too---:highly_amused: