Hello friends,
First time poster here. Was wondering if anybody can confirm if I have these toque specs correct. I am doing some fuel injector and electrical diagnostics and just put it all back together under the valve covers. My Jake housing on the 3406E (6TS) is 340A. I have 4 mounting bolts and 2 rear nuts (pictured below). I know these all have different names, but to avoid confusion I am mentioning placement.
I believe they all torque down to 80 ft lbs, more specifically 50 ft lbs - 1/4 turn - 80 ft lbs
And the valve covers bolts along with valve cover base 13 ft lbs.
Also notice the one mounting bolt is a different diameter? This is the only model I’ve seen this on, anyone know what that’s about and if it’s torqued the same? I would think so. I’ve circled all mounts, the orange and red is the smaller diameter bolt. I believe it’s 5 or 7/16 off the top of my head and the rest are 3/4” and the nuts are of course larger.
Thank you anyone that has any input!
3406E Jake Housing mounts torque specs
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I am almost certain your cover bolts at 13 is correct though.
Is that bolt actually a different diameter at the thread or just for some reason have a 12pt head -
I called a CAT shop and that’s where I got the 80 ft lbs from and they sent me a snap shot of the quick guide which had me confused for a moment. Anyway I tightened all down to 80 and honestly when taking them off they felt way tighter.
And after all that I must have messed up setting the housing back in, looked to all be lined up, but the engine is turning but won’t fire. So now I have to start over on that or do an overhead.
Never done any of this before, but it seemed simple enough. I took my time. -
Torque for those sounds correct. I'm still in my old ways of always doing 85ftlb, but I know the latest spec is torque+angel (its changed several times over the years)
The 6 point bolts are a update for some breakage issue they had with some of the original bolts.
The 3rd one back is a original 12 point bolt and is required to be there because that bolt hole is the oil feed to the jake housing, the 12 point bolt is turned down for better oil flow.
If you replaced a injector or removed any you will need to get fuel back up into the head before it will want to fire, easiest and best way is with the hand primer pump if you have it on the engine, otherwise it can take some time for the transfer pump to get enough pressure back in the head to fire. -
Thank you for that info. This actually came to my mind late last night and I’m about to go try that. Hopefully turning the engine didn’t get air in the system. Had that happen once and took an entire day to get it all bled out. Hopefully that’s it I was beginning to wonder if I somehow mixed up the order of the Jake housing. I had it all organized, but it was late and I may have overlooked that
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