Bwitched, just a couple more questions--is the crush sleeve a standard item like from a bearing house? And the torque is 18 to 20 inch lbs on the crush you used on the Quaife?
Please pardon my mechanical void, I'm not a complete idiot--only half
For anyone that might be confused on the very low torque settings I threw out, an explanation.
The 18 to 20 in/lb on the Ford pinion is NOT the torque required to tighten the nut, but the force required to spin the pinion shaft after the crush sleeve has been torqued down to set the preload on the pinion bearings.
I'm not sure on the smaller Quaife, but I would guess it will be a bit less than the 18 to 20 on an automotive pinion shaft. It's also hard to find a torque wrench capable of reading that low. Some of the old lever torque wrenches with the scale and the pointer will read that low, but they are a bit temperamental sometimes.
