URGENT! Top pulley locknut broke

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Mar 28, 2013 | 10:56 PM

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misterstyx69

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From: Smiths Falls.(near Ottawa!.Mapquest IT!)

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Originally Posted by gear_grinder

evidently not old enough to get the reference

Hey!..who died and made you Kolbassa?
(enough of that..lol.. I am hungry now!)
OP..I got that part..ya need it?

Mar 28, 2013 | 11:06 PM

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JustJeff

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Originally Posted by texFCturboII

OP, are you sure your torque wrench isn't in Newton-Meters? Or maybe it's out of calibration?

You broke 4 bolts changing a water pump. I guess it's not unheard of (present example excluded) but that's not common. Are you cross-threading these or something?

Read my mind...something is definitely amiss. I'd figure out why you are snapping off bolts and studs before anything else gets broken.