{"id":3953,"date":"2026-01-26T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:01:53","slug":"1-25-2026-update-subframe-crossmember-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/2026\/01\/1-25-2026-update-subframe-crossmember-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/25\/2026 Update – Subframe Crossmember – day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got a little side-tracked working on this.  I needed to figure out how to use my new digital torque wrench, then got confused with lbs ft vs ft lbs which are actually the same.  Then I had to dig out my manuals to see what the recommended torque amounts were: 25-35 lbs ft for the bolts that mount the cross member to the subframe.  I also had to figure out which tools I would use to get in the tight space.  So maybe I’ll get out there this weekend and pick up where I left off!  Side note: ChatGPT gave a 35-45 torque setting which was not what the manual had – double check the AI – always!  Will also use some blue loctite when tightening things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got a little side-tracked working on this.  I needed to figure out how to use my new digital torque wrench, then got confused with lbs ft vs ft lbs which are actually the same.  Then I had to dig out my manuals to see what the recommended torque amounts were: 25-35 lbs ft for the … Continue reading 1\/25\/2026 Update – Subframe Crossmember – day 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro","tag-subframe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougbratton.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}