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I over-torqued ball joint bolts by mistake. What next? 900 1993

posted by  Vladimir on  Thu May 15 04:26 CST 2008
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I was replacing the ball joints on my wife's 945 yesterday and on the right side when I installed the new one I mistakenly torqued the two bolts that hold the ball joint to the strut tube to 44 ft*lb in stage 1, then did stage 2 as prescribed 90 degrees past that. I confused the torque setting with the ball joint shaft to control arm setting :(

So, my question is what should I do?

1. Replace the bolts (if so, what spcs are they? Grade 8 or what?)?

2. Re-torque them to the correct setting (probably not, since they are not supposed to be reused)?

3. Leave them alone (is there a risk of latent failure?)?

Thanks!

--
Vladimir. '98 S70 base, 5-speed manual - his, '93 945 (approaching 200K miles and rolling on...) - hers






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