how dumb is this. i have been torturing myself putting in this clutch for the last FOUR DAYS! last night i was putting on the pressure plate,a little drunk reading the torque specs, and started going for 136 foot pounds of torque... BUT I JUST REALISED THAT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE INCH POUNDS! :banghead:

 

so is it wrecked? thank god the flywheel is steel and i didnt wreck the hole threads. I think its fine, i had the nuts up to like 65 lbs roughly, but I still want to ask somebody. AAAHHHHHHHH!

Darn English units of measure!!!

 

If you tightened everything up evenly, the pressure plate should be fine. I might be a little worried about the bolts, but if they didn't snap under the overtorque they will probably be fine at the proper torque.

ok i sure hope so. i did them all up nice and even while i was torqueing the sheeit out of it, so i'm goin to go ahead and put the tranny back in now...

Pressure plates are pretty sturdy; just think of all the abuse they take for 40-120k miles. There big problems are if they are tweaked by tightening one bolt while the others are left untightened, or if flywheel and pressure plate aren't compatible (wrong PP or flywheel not machined correctly) so that "fingers" go overcenter.