thatonenozz
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Snapped one of the timing cover bolts when torquing with a harbor freight click type after OPG install. Now I use an autozone click type because I've learned so much lol
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Thank you for the kind words. My car is crap compared to my dog...
Thanks a lot for the help, I shall change that damn stud thenYup, just the bolt. It is not connected to the shocks or the shock mount (on previous models it was?)
Here's a shitty pic from my wheel well where you can see it's not connected (although it sits close to it). (it might be from the opposite wheel I don't remember, it's the most "viewable" pic I had left laying around of one of the strut bolts)
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The stud snapped at 25 ft-lbs? Wonder what the deal is with this particular stud that so many people are having snap off. Are people putting grease on the threads or anything like that?oh well, I broke mine today ! the same damn stud where you clip on the brown harness. I followed torque specs and I dont get it ! all the others were fine ! The worst part is that I took my time knowing of this issue and set my torque wrench to a conservative 25 ft pds! SOOO PISSED.
Thanks for the pics. It's nice to see that it's not impossible to hammer it out. I'll probably try again before drilling.Take a nice weighted hammer to that sucker and bang it out. I did that with mine:
http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81846&highlight=Sheared&page=2
Sounds eerily similar to what happened to mine... Is a monkey on the assembly line tightening them without a torque wrench?I was able to torque all except the one that snapped to Spec. The other snapped right away most likely production issue with these and everyone gets one.
The guys who snapped off the stud ... did you have a Performance Package car that came with the strut tower bar? Or did you add a strut tower bar to a car that never had one from the factory, and then snapped off a stud?Sounds eerily similar to what happened to mine... Is a monkey on the assembly line tightening them without a torque wrench?