Your Torque Wrench?
Based on many posts here, it seems that many of you travel with a torque wrench. I have never owned or even used one, and I have turned many a nut or bolt with torque specifications just by guessing....
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Mootpoint wrote:
I remember when we were kids, yes I can remember that far back, we would rebuild several engines over the course of the summer. We didn't have a torque wrench. We measured by the grunt. 2 grunts to loosen it - 2 grunts to tighten it.:B
A lot depends on who is doing the grunting..:B
And/or how to measure the "grunt factor" from one guy to the next.
I worked with a guy... "Big Mitch".
If Mitch tightened something *hand* tight, it was *wrench* tight for you to loosen.
Years later I met a guy who went to HS with Mitch.
Everybody was a hot-rodder - or at least thought they were.
Mitch was a nice helpful guy - but they would turn down his assistance for working on engines or replacing transmissions,etc.
Said Mitch would either break bolts - or bend/break their open-end wrenches...:B
Don't think he ever grunted, LOL!
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