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Originally Posted by msh03046
Thanks for the feedback turbodudey2! When I see these discrepancies in the specs I know that some are just straight up typos, but I wonder if there were changes made over the model years (especially with all the changes that were inner generation), and the FSM has them all mixed together.
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Thanks for sharing this. This is not the first time a discrepancy like this have been found in the FSM. In my 2000 FSM, the same part diagram you showed has the torque value as 151 ft-lbs. Then, in the step by step pages of putting the steering rack on the vehicle, it specifies the spec as 141 ft-lbs and that's the spec we share in the video for that nut. With the other bolts at 123 ft-lbs, it's not a stretch to believe that big nut has a spec of 141 ft-lbs. Actually, 96 ft-lbs seems a little light for that size of a fastener.
With that said, I did experience what you mentioned with the torque value not being achieved when I was helping a friend with this job. I had done the job on two other rigs and was able to hit the 141 ft-lb spec no problem. But, on this occasion it kept going and I started wondering if my torque wrench was off so I stopped cranking on it.