<x-flowed>On 08/10/2011 01:54 PM, Greg Merritt wrote:
I guess I'm glad I've never used a torque wrench for this -- I just go for "really tight" and stop when the hole first comes around to a good spot in the "really tight" range! ;)
That's all my dad would do. He used a half inch snap-on breaker bar with cheater pipe over it. Same with pulling them off. I did find the breaker bar out in the shop, still in one piece. Amazing after all the stuff he put it through. I'm afraid of breaking it but I did use it to do the balancer bolt on a mazda 3 MZR/Duratec engine, tighten to 75 ft lbs, then go 90 more degrees. The torque wrench was clicking at 250 ft lbs.
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