Going through the GTS Torque Specifications last night, need some insight.

My advice... do this... I found that my upper control arm bolts and the brake caliper bolts were all under torqued.

A few questions:

1. What are the 4 spindle bolts? The list says the following:
Spindal mounting bolt, top
Spindal mounting bolt, inside top
Spindal mounting bolt, inside bottom
Sipndal mounting bolt, bottom

I can only see 2 bolts on the lower part of the spindle that look like 12-pt that are behind the rotor and not accessible even w/ a flex headed rachet wrench, the rotor must be off. Other than that there's the upper ball joint w/ a nut on each end. Anyone know which fasteners are the spindal bolts referred to? I tightened/checked everything I could get a wrench on, but would like clarification. The owners manual and parts book don't have anything that tells you, I've been through both.

2. What are the "Caliper hardware bolts"? The list states there are 8 of them total and they should be torqued to 10 ft/lbs.

I checked the bleed scres and cross-over hard line one each caliper, but that would make 4 fittings per caliper x 4 = 16. There are allen bolts that hold the caliper halves to gether but 4 per caliper x4 makes 16 and those should never really need to be messed with.

Any clarification would be helpful? Everything else is straght forward and makes sense.

ttt

Brian,
Did you ever get the answers to these questions?

Mike

I consider these torques to refer to the following (I am going to call out the parts by item number from the GTS parts manual page 14) :

Spindal mounting bolt, top - nut number 34
Spindal mounting bolt, inside top - 51
Spindal mounting bolt, inside bottom - not shown but the nut on top of 32
Sipndal mounting bolt, bottom - 47

Comments?