justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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You don't torque anything until they are All snug. Go around, by hand, just a wrench or socket and get the jug down Flat. Then keep going . First, hand tight. Cross corners. Front left, right rear. Front right, left rear. If you can't just Set the cylinder down and it sit flat, something is wrong. Lay the torque wrench down, get a 1/4" ratchet and Gently bring the cylinder down. You don't throw a tire on a car and put one lug nut on and torque it, do you? You snug them, in a criss cross pattern, and continue to tighten them sequentially, until you get it tight. If you have torqued to spec one bolt and Not had the others snugged down enough to keep the cylinder flat on the cases, you may have messed up the gasket. Remove and inspect.
Get it together using basic hand tools, then the torque wrench for the last bit. You may be onto something.. if you've got something tight, but the cylinder isn't clamped down, then debris in the hole is a possibility. Did you scrape a gasket there?
This is why I'm so meticulous in the disassembling of anything. Of course, that wasn't always the case. I learned that, after building and stepping into several bear traps. When you pull the bolts, is there crud on the end?
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