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Iron Butt
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Manchester, CT | Fellow Riders,
I am looking for torque wrench recommendaitons to be used when working on my Vision. I am looking for wrench that covers the torque specs low and high end. 3/8" should probably suffice. Also, I'm not looking to do engine work.
Thanks in advance! |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | Torque wrench? Who needs a torque wrench. I usually measure by grunts. 70 ft lbs is as a couple of grunt, take it from there.... |
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Tourer
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Chattanooga, TN | You'll most likely need two. I got mine from Harbor Freight. I have a 1/2" drive for the big jobs requiring a lot of torque and a 1/4" drive for the body panels and such. They had them on sale a while back for about $20 each. A great deal! |
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Iron Butt
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Mt. Vernon, WASH. | For what you're doing, Horrible Fright should suffice, but for a few bucks more you could get your wrenches @ SEARS. DONOT get digital wrenches!! They can be wildly erratic and usualy can't be corrected close enough by a metrology outfit (as a hint, Boeing will not allow digital wrenches in the factory because they are so inaccurate). I used to teach tourquing to up and coming aircraft mechanics so it's a touchy subject with me.
Find out the smallest and biggest torques for a 1/4 inch drive and find a wrench that will register at least 10% above minimum needed torques and has at least 20% margin above your highest required torque, do the same for a 3/8 inch drive wrench.
Dont use them as breaker bars they ARE a calibrated instrument, don't throw them around, set them down carefully. Don't keep them in your drawer full of hammers.
A nice, smooth, steady pull until the wrench clicks ONCE is all you need, if you click it again then you've exceeded the required torque and have no idea what the fastener is tightened to, might as well be a pro and not like a Farmer and 'tighten 'er down till she catches fire an back 'er off till she smokes'.
On aluminum threads with steel fasteners, a tiny, tiny dab of anti sieze on the threads will prevent galling or pulling the threads out of the aluminum, same with CRES (stainless steel bolts) in any metal, a small bottle of Anti sieze should last you until your kids are in their 60's, a toothpick end dab is all you need.
VARYRIDER, please show me the certified calibration card on your elbow |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | unless I was rebuilding my engine, close enough, is close enough. I know it's not good advise, but neither is a el cheapo, inaccurate torque wrench. I have a snap-on click type that hasn't been calibrated in more than 30 years, and a recently purchased beam type, which I use to "torque" the steering bearing. I don't strip or warp and nothing has burned up or blown apart in all the years of using my calibrated elbow.
Growing up, I worked as a mechanic for a trucking company and one of the guys that worked there would rebuild engines for the neighbors all the time. I would go hang out at his place from time to time and was amazed he never used a torque wrench in doing a rebuild. He also never had an engine go out on him either, and he did a lot of them in the area, cheap, but good. |
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Iron Butt
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Mt. Vernon, WASH. | Sorry! It's just my training and work discipline for 45 years was to make sure you were safe while blasting through the Ionosphere @ 650MPH. My training centered around 'do it right or get out'.
Since all my offers and suggestions of how to do things safely or correctly in the past seem to fall on deaf ears -I believe I'm finished with this forum. Good luck in your continued blind ignorance. |
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Tourer
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Chattanooga, TN | I have stripped out a few accidentally. Maybe I'm just a little stronger than the average bear, so I benefit from even an el cheapo torque wrench! |
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New user
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Cedar Rapids,IA | SYNSTR, you are correct concerning the "torque wrench" discussion. We can go on for days on this... really! The answer the others are not aware of is clamp load, which is why a torque spec is assigned. So people have not had a motor come apart does not mean they have achieved proper tightening. |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | The point is, if you're torquin' get the right tool, which wouldn't be a HF torque wrench. I put my disclaimer on there, don't do as I do. Synstr, you gave good guidance, right on. May I add that as a mechanic at the trucking company, as a mechanic and supervisor for 20 years in the Army, and a once ASE certified diesel mechanic, I use certified calibrated tools for all the work. My stuff, not so much.
Edited by varyder 2013-05-21 9:46 PM
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Iron Butt
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, WI | I have a 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" torque wrench. I use a torque wrench on all engine, wheel, brake and suspension work on all of my vehicles. |
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Torque Wrench Recommendations?
