260 ft lbs of torque? Really?
The Husky weight distributing hitch that came with our TT needs to be dropped a couple of inches. The instructions say the bolt that I need to undo to lower it should be tightened to 260 ft lbs of to...
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myredracer wrote:
If you have a local shop that works on dump trucks and semis, see if they will do it. I had one tighten up the nut on the pitman arm on the steering box on our truck. They didn't charge anything. I tried a couple of auto. machine shops and they didn't have a big enough torque wrench. (IIRC, it was something like 450 ft-lbs.)
You should be able to rent something from a tool rental shop.
An automotive machine shop could do it.
A long pipe on a 3/4" drive will work as noted above. Turn the hitch sideways in the receiver. If you had a bag of cement weighing 50 lbs, you'd want the point where the bag would be hanging (via rope) to be 260/50 = 5.2' long.
You could also go to HF and buy a torque wrench and socket. You'd also be able to use it check your wheel lug nuts periodically.
I sure wouldn't trust a dealer. When picked up our previous TT, the salesman came out to help me install our new Reese WDH. He went inside and came back with a battery-powered impact driver (the kind carpenters use, good for just over 100 ft-lbs) and socket and proceeded to tighten the nut on the ball.... That's scary. :E I said no thanks and torqued it up properly with the torque wrench I had with me.
I don't know. My Ryobi 18 volt impact wrench is rated for 220 and when I check it with my calibrated torque wrench it will go to 240. I know the snap on models Are good for 300.
