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Torque specs on SVO axle girdle

DasFrem

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I'm moving my SVO axle girdle from the street truck to the trail truck since I'm not exactly pushing enough HP on the white one to damage to the diff, plus it's tucked away so deep you can't even see it for looks, so might as well put it to use on the trail rig. Only problem is that I don't remember the torque specs for A) the bolts that hold it to the axle housing, and B) the carrier support bolts. Does anybody know these off hand or still have the instruction manual that came with the girdle?

Thanks

EDIT: For those who don't know, the SVO axle girdle is the differential cover that looks like this:
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Someone's gotta have at least a general idea of what the specs were on this, I can't remember for the life of me except that maybe the bearing retainer bolts are initially torqued to like 5-10ft/lbs and then the locknuts are like 50 or so. Anybody have anything more specific?

Thanks!
 






This is off the top of my head so don't quote me:

Cover bolts: 15-25 ft/lbs
Support bolts: 5-10 ft/lbs
Lock Nut: ?
 






Hey, thanks alot Jefe, that's what I was figuring, but I wanted to be as sure as possible. I guess the locknuts will just go on around 40-50 or so. That should hold it alright.
 






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