Re: oilheads-digest V3 #48

[Tpcutter@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 4/4/06 9:05:49 AM Eastern  Standard Time,
egrohe@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Though I am sure what you did was  summarize the BMW method of 2 x 90
degrees  as 180 degrees I have  always interpreted it as a primary
tightening to 20 Nm  and then  tighten by a 90 degree "turn of the nut"
according to the prescribed pattern  and then a second  tightening by
another 90 degrees in the prescribed  pattern.>>


BMW issued a bulletin about nine years ago revising  the method to 180:. I
have found that to "feel" much more consistent.

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