I was looking at rod torque numbers and in my Chilton manual for the 44's it has the same 15 foot pound (180 inch pound) number that you had found previously and used on your last build.
Jerry...
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I was looking at rod torque numbers and in my Chilton manual for the 44's it has the same 15 foot pound (180 inch pound) number that you had found previously and used on your last build.
Jerry...
Another thing you might do is call or send a note to Jerry Wiendant at Trident racing. Jerry is the person who wrote the "44 Secrets" paper, has probably built about a thousand racing motors (or...
Did you do a closeup inspection of the broken parts and look for "beach marks" on the rod bolt breakage surfaces? I used to do failure analysis on jet motors and most of the time we could find the...
Very late 44's were cracked rods, Not sure what year they went to it, but most of them were the machined rods.
That same size bolt on the 44 cubic inch motors is torqued to 18 foot pounds (216 inch pounds) so yes 15 foot pounds is a bit low....
The merc motors run in the modified classes run pretty high...