Thread: Torque specifications for Series One LRs

Land Rover Series One Club

whitehillbilly

Thanks WhiteHillbilly,
I did have a look there (am a member) but could not find anything. I'll go back and have a better look.

Regards,
Tote

The only torque specifications ever published officially for the Series 1 is that for head bolts - 75lbft for 1/2" and 12-13 lbft for 5/16".

Any figures published other than these are ones specified many years later with no authority. When the Series 1 was in production only well equipped workshops had torque wrenches - and even many of these had arrangements to share one among mates in different workshops. Almost no home mechanics had them, but would borrow them for the head bolts if possible.

The same applied for the Series 2, but there were quite a few more published for Series 3, and, of course, most of these are also applicable to Series 2/2a, and probably a few to Series 1, although not on the engine. And those that seem to be applicable need to be applied with caution because the Series 1 used BSF where Series 3 used UNF or metric on the five bearing engines and probably a few other places on late models.