torque wrench
Can someone recommend a basic torque wrench for me. I have a lot of tools but never owned a TW. Will not be building engines or that sort of thing so something basic that actually works, without b...
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fj12ryder wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:You need to tell most of the shops around here, apparently they haven't gotten the memo. :) I don't know how many tires I've personally removed, or heard about from friends and relatives, that are tightened way above the torque settings. I've loosened more lug nuts that are too tight than ones that are too loose or just right.
"I have never seen a normal tire shop use bar type, click type, or any type of torque wrenches to put on tire lug nuts"
Well Sir you are going to all the wrong half AZZ places!
Discount Tire hand starts the lug nuts then runs them up with a light setting on impact just enough to snug the nuts. Then they torque to spec in a cross pattern then they go in a circle for a final time. If the tire shop you use does not do that it's just being plain LAZY!
NO way would I let anyone use Torque Sticks!!!
As far as torque wrenches go, I would no way use an inferior torque wrench. Look on CL and Ebay. I bought two Proto torque wrenches that a guy bought for one Jeep project. I paid $100 each. I could not tell they had been used.
Just because you think it doesn't happen doesn't make it so. There are many more half-azz shops than there are good ones.
That Proto wrench may look perfect but looks and function sometimes can be worlds apart. All it would take is a couple times of using it for a breaker bar to loosen nuts/bolts for it to be out of whack. But it still looks great. Price doesn't necessarily indicate quality, sometimes it just indicates price.
A Proto 1/2" drive torque wrench will easily go 30,000 cycles without calibration drift. I have tested them to over 90,000 cycles. The teeth on their ratchet wheel will break at 438 ft-lbs and the wheel can be replaced without the wrench needing calibration. There will be no damage to a 1/2" Proto wrench internals should you overload it and break a tooth.
