Thread: Rear suspension torque setting

Originally Posted by andies landies

I'm reassembling the upper link ("A" arm) on my 110 and I'm afraid of damaging the bolts bolts that attach the two halves of "A" to the ball-joint.
The manual says that these should be done up to 176 Nm but they are only 1/2" UNF bolts
Can anyone confirm that this value is correct?

Cheers,
Andrew

This link will help Andrew;

BOLTS AND TORQUE SPECS

JC

Thanks for the link. It agrees with my gut feeling and all the other tables of torque values that I've checked.
Could "ball-joint bracket bolts" refer to anything other than the two bolts I'm talking about?

Originally Posted by andies landies

Thanks for the link. It agrees with my gut feeling and all the other tables of torque values that I've checked.
Could "ball-joint bracket bolts" refer to anything other than the two bolts I'm talking about?

In a Defender, they could mean the 4 shorter high tensile bolts holding the bracket to the top of the diff housing, the one that has the taper in it.

JC

Andrew, just did another google search to check, as my manuals aren't here at the moment, and it appeears the 176Nm value is for the TOP 30mm socket size bolts that hold the A frame top to the chassis bracket on the crossmember above the rear diff.

JC