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Attacked the hydro- matic to the 308 today and looked to no avail for the amount of tork for the fly wheel to crank nuts or the torus bolts in THE book. I torked the fly wheel nuts to 45 lbs and the torus bolts to 25 lbs??????? The book tells one little it seems other than things we all know anyway? I need an old pro to comfirm or correct me as I am to install the engine with tranny tomorrow/////Asking for help again!! Rodney (54 hornet).

GrimGreaser

Your torques look good. The regular manual mentions very little about the Hydramatic, you need the Hydro book for those details.

Torque specs from the Hudson Hydramatic manual:

Torus to flywheel - 4 steps: 2 bolts adjacent to dowels to 12-15 ft*lbs, 2 bolts 90deg from dowels to 12-15 ft*lbs. Then all bolts in rotation to 20-25 ft*lbs, then finally all bolts in rotation to 26-31 ft*lbs.

Flywheel to crank: 40-45 ft*lbs

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Thank you GrimGreaser you know your stuff....I am good to go on this after doing a final torking of torus bolts to 31 ft*lbs. I got a print out of this also from a renoun hudsonite in my club. Thanks all...Rodney.

As a side note to this procedure I ''Indian head glued'' the flywheel to crank flang to seal it and put Indian head glue inbetween all the gasket bolt holes on the torus gasket just to keep it in place while attaching the tranny to the back of engine.

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