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Glad for you....better than broken head gaskets or warped cylinder heads.

 

Quite good fortune. I recommend you proceed immediately to the nearest casino and bet the farm while your luck holds out.

 

That is great advice. What are the torque specifications and tightening sequence?

Thanks,

John (too tired and lazy to search after coming home on the redeye from the west coast)

 

Tighten box nuts to the torque of 50Nm(5 kgm) according to the sequence listed below, finally tighten them to 100Nm(10 kgm)

2 rows of 7 each:
Inside row(from left to right)= 14, 10,6, 2, 3, 7, 11
Outside row (" " " " )= 13, 9, 5, 1, 4, 8, 12

You're basically starting in the center and working towards the ends of the heads.

100Nm=73.7561 ft.lbs.

 

Thanks, that's great.

John

 

John, is your 400i #46153, mileage still in the mid 20k range?
Bruce

 

Yes, still 46153 since 1998 but mileage now is 35,000. Can't say that I'm proud of only 13,000 miles over 9 years but I'm trying!

John

 

Don't worry @ the mileage thing, 1500mi/yr is not bad. It becomes tough keeping all cars exercised as you accumulate more, if cars are your gig, fine; otherwise.......
Mine is an '84 #46009, I'll post better pix of the ID plate (engine bay) later, & I must look further into first/last # of each Ferrari year.
400i--26kmi
78-280z--50kmi
95 Wrangler--49kmi
All look/smell new, and I'm happy about that.
Bruce

 

I don't have the serial numbers broken out by year, although I could probably get fairly close by looking at the lists that Dave Stacey and I have compiled over the years.

One of the difficulties is understanding the confusion that sometimes is created by the U.S. model year designation protocol that assigns a model year that might be different than the actual production year. For example, my 46153 as far as I can tell was produced probably sometime around March or April of 1983 and yet my registration shows it as a 1984 model. Since my 400i actually first entered the U.S. on August 23, 1983 and didn't receive its DOT and EPA exemption certificates until May 1984, I guess might be two reasons that the 1984 model year label was applied.

Since your serial number is even earlier than mine, I would guess that the same thing has been applied in calling it a 1984. My log for instance shows your car as a 1983.

Anyhoo, I do have beginning and ending serial numbers of the broader models:

400: 501 cars from 19353 to 29051 (according to Ferrari Market Letter, Cavallino says last 400 was 28261).

400i: 1,308 cars from 27025 to 55523 in February 1985

412: 576 cars from 58629 (Cavallino says 56275) to 82001 (Cavallino says last 412 was 82153)

John

 

John
Attached some pix of ID plate, could these somehow be duplicated by a US Ferrari dealer and swapped out? I would also think FML & Cav. would have on 'in' w/Ferrari to nail down the exact #'s of start/finish of model years----maybe Stepney had a hand in this!
Bruce
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