V-6 Diesel Engine - Revised Main Bearing Bolt Torque
Model Year 1982Bulletin No. 82-I-244
File In Group 60
Number 81
Date Oct. '83
SUBJECT: V-6 DIESEL ENGINE MAIN BEARING BOLT TORQUE
MODELS AFFECTED: 1982
The main bearing bolt torque is specified as 145 N-m (107 ft.lbs.) in the 1982 model service manuals. This has been changed and is now 120 N-m (89 ft.lbs.). Please make this change in the 1982 Century and Skylark Service Manual on page 6A7-31 and in the Regal, LeSabre, Electra and Riveria on page 6A6-42.
Care must be exercised not to over torque or under torque these bolts.