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I've been reading information when assembling the rear axle stubs and torqueing. Many talk about the pre-load for the axle bearings but I can't find a specification for it. Perhaps it was bad terminology or working with tapered bearings. Does anyone have this information they would share? This is for my 73 L series, 6336.
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Wannabe is correct; consider the 350 ft-lbs to be a minimum torque. The outer ball-bearing is captured by a machined step in the carrier and a steel plate bolted to the outside. The inner bearing is unrestrained except by the pipe-like inner spacerm and the torque that holds everything in a stack. And late GT5-S cars use STRAIGHT roller bearings in the inner position with ball-bearing torques on the axle nuts. BTW, a new/stock spanner-nut can take well over 800 ft-lbs before stripping becomes an issue, and the two axles take left and right-hand threaded nuts.

If your car uses tapered roller bearings from a conversion, it depends on who did the work because there are at least two different designs. One still uses the inner spacer and ball-bearing torque on the nut. This design of conversion IMHO needs extremely careful fitting to work, as tapered rollers normally take NO pre-load at all beyond hand-tight.

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