Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Please play nicely.  No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.  (Read 3257 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Danweder

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Kidderminster
  • Posts: 1
    • Vauxhall Omega
    • View Profile
Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« on: 02 March 2018, 10:24:34 »
Hi everyone,

I am just needing a bit of help with regards to the prop shaft on the Vauxhall omega 1999. Does anybody know what the torque setting is for the bolts each end, please?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thankyou
Dan.
Logged

terry paget

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Midsomer Norton Somerset
  • Posts: 4633
    • 3 Astras 2 Vectra
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #1 on: 02 March 2018, 15:44:38 »
If hexagon bolt 95Nm
If torx bolt (never seen one in this situation) use new bolt, 50Nm, then angle tighten 75degrees, then a further 15degrees.
Logged

biggriffin

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • huntingdon, Hoof'land
  • Posts: 9852
    • It's Insignificant
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #2 on: 02 March 2018, 19:58:56 »
FT.
Logged
Hoof'land storeman.

Nick W

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Chatham, Kent
  • Posts: 11081
    • Ghastly 1.0l Focus
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #3 on: 02 March 2018, 20:12:21 »
Quote from: biggriffin on 02 March 2018, 19:58:56
FT.


Yeah, that.


I don't think I've ever used a torque wrench on a prop shaft bolt. We've recently fitted a propeller to a Lycoming radial where the official procedure was: hang a 180lb weight(a man) 3 feet from the prop nut, and hit the bar end sharply with a 4lb hammer. When you're supporting one blade of the prop on your shoulder while this is going on, it makes you wonder just how good your welding on the tool you made to do the job actually is
Logged

omegod

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • liverpool
  • Posts: 4348
    • 2017 Seat Ateca
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #4 on: 02 March 2018, 20:46:19 »
Never torqued them and my experience as a breaker is that they aren't done up that tight from factory
Logged
Happy to do Omega servicing etc around Merseyside,cruise activation, airbag lights sorted too...

Kevin Wood

  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Alton, Hampshire
  • Posts: 36489
    • Jaguar XE 25t, Westfield
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #5 on: 03 March 2018, 09:54:16 »
Probably worth a dab of threadlock on them too. Propshaft bolts often come pre-treated with such and you don't really want them coming undone. :y
Logged
Tech2 services currently available. See TheBoy's price list: http://theboy.omegaowners.com/

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107520
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #6 on: 03 March 2018, 09:59:46 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 03 March 2018, 09:54:16
Probably worth a dab of threadlock on them too. Propshaft bolts often come pre-treated with such and you don't really want them coming undone. :y
And I think we all know that fateful noise from when we've forgotten to put the bolts back in following certain jobs ;D
Logged
Grumpy old man

Kevin Wood

  • Global Moderator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Alton, Hampshire
  • Posts: 36489
    • Jaguar XE 25t, Westfield
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #7 on: 03 March 2018, 10:35:08 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 03 March 2018, 09:59:46
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 03 March 2018, 09:54:16
Probably worth a dab of threadlock on them too. Propshaft bolts often come pre-treated with such and you don't really want them coming undone. :y
And I think we all know that fateful noise from when we've forgotten to put the bolts back in following certain jobs ;D

Yes, and watching dents appear in the transmission tunnel while you wonder why there's no drive and it sounds like Motorhead are doing a sound check under the car is even more fun. :D
Logged
Tech2 services currently available. See TheBoy's price list: http://theboy.omegaowners.com/

Doctor Gollum

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • In a colds and darks puddleses
  • Posts: 30478
  • If you can't eat them, join them...
    • Feetses.
    • View Profile
Re: Vauxhall Omega prop shaft torque setting.
« Reply #8 on: 03 March 2018, 11:40:14 »
Quote from: omegod on 02 March 2018, 20:46:19
Never torqued them and my experience as a breaker is that they aren't done up that tight from factory
I thought that they were around 60nm, tight, but not tight enough to require a breaker bar ;)
Logged
Onanists always think outside the box.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.021 seconds with 17 queries.