{"id":939,"date":"2010-07-07T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-05T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T07:11:16","slug":"torqued-engine-attach-bolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2010\/07\/07\/torqued-engine-attach-bolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Torqued Engine Attach Bolts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been deburring and countersinking pieces of the cabin frame, but this is boring and not worth pictures. \u00a0I did decide I’d go ahead and torque and cotter pin the engine attach bolts for some reason today. \u00a0You can’t get a torque wrench on these, but Van’s instructions are basically to tighten these down firmly against the internal spacer in the mount. \u00a0You can feel when these bottom out against the spacer. \u00a0I then tightened them slightly more to align the cotter pin slots. \u00a0Getting the cotter pins installed in the top two bolts was fairly trivial. \u00a0The bottom two were kind of a pain with everything in the way. \u00a0Do yourself a favor and install the cotter pins as soon as you hang the engine and not after the exhaust, control brackets, wires, etc. are in the way.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been deburring and countersinking pieces of the cabin frame, but this is boring and not worth pictures. \u00a0I did decide I’d go ahead and torque and cotter pin the engine attach bolts for some reason today. \u00a0You can’t get a torque wrench on these, but Van’s instructions are basically to tighten these down firmly … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}