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Dotetcher

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Haynes is WAY off.  '97 factory manual calls for 21nm./15 ft.lb.  But the '99-'00 manual calls for 20nm/14ft.lb. like the Haynes.  Honda calls them 'exhaust pipe joint nut'.

 

I've always just done them by feel, but if I were gonna use specs I'd use the newer one.

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1 hour ago, superhawk996 said:

Haynes is WAY off.  '97 factory manual calls for 21nm./15 ft.lb.  But the '99-'00 manual calls for 20nm/14ft.lb. like the Haynes.  Honda calls them 'exhaust pipe joint nut'.

 

I've always just done them by feel, but if I were gonna use specs I'd use the newer one.

The difference between 177inlbs or 185 inlbs. If you're doing them by feel probably not much of a difference I would think.

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Yup.  I always use my in.lb. wrench for lower torques like this.  Tho I've not tested my big ft.lb. clickers, I'd be leery of them at such low settings.

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1 minute ago, Dotetcher said:

The difference between 177inlbs or 185 inlbs. If you're doing them by feel probably not much of a difference I would think.

Split the difference and target 181.  And yea, mine might be way the hell off.  I do so much by feel that I rarely think about specs.  On stuff like this I feel for the part to be bottomed out plus a little bolt/stud stretch.  Next time I'm in there I'll try to remember to check them just for kicks.

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Both. This bike has close to 130000 miles. Ridden hard. Put away wet. Seriously now. Ridden coast to coast, all times of the year, salted roads and unfortunately salt water a few times. Outer Banks. Rte 12. One road in, on road out....sometimes.

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