Re: This was in my email today....

Posted by Steve203 On 2014/6/3 8:41:24
Specific torque stretches the threads the correct amount and holds it together. I hope.

In 75, I dropped some sample castings off at the Dana plant in Edgerton, Wisconsin. The Dana engineer I met gave me a tour of the plant. He showed me the differential bolts and explained "they are 100% inspection, oil coated, and they are torqued almost to the breaking point".

Maybe a bit off topic for the thread, but does anyone know why Packard changed axles? My reading says Packard moved the machining line for rear axles to Utica for 55. So they shut that line down a year later and outsourced axles to Dana? The Dana axles had issues, like the cracks I have read about elsewhere? And the Packard built axles did not have issues?

Thanks

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