I was bleeding the brakes and wanted to apply some blue loctite on the swaybar endlinks since the car was already on the jacks.
I couldn't find the torque specs of the stabilizer/end links so I referred to previous gen Camaro's specs and used 38 lb/ft torque initially. Then, recently one of the forum members (cannot recall who) mentioned that he learned that the torque specs and it should be 65-70 lb/ft and it shouldn't be that low.
I thought it sounded a bit on the high side but it shouldn't hurt to torque them a bit more (50lb/ft ) since it's a 18mm bolt and nut right?
RIGHT? Wrong
Long story short don't make the same mistake and over torque them. In the meantime
if anyone can tell me the "real "torque values of these, I'd highly appreciate it. And of course, it happened right before my scheduled event this Saturday
. I called the dealership this morning and ordered two of those endlinks, even though the passenger side is fine for now. Hopefully they will be there to pick up tomorrow morning as they said and I can quickly put them on and be on my way for the weekend event at the ORP.
