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5899, i hate aluminum, my car, haynes, and my torque wrench
Posted by burntheblobs, Mar-21-06 12:09 PM
Why do bolts have to break when I try to properly torque them down with a snap-on torque wrench?
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5900, RE: i hate aluminum, my car, haynes, and my torque wrench
Posted by DarkOne, Mar-21-06 12:17 PM
Because they're rated in inch pounds, not foot pounds :)
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5901, RE: i hate aluminum, my car, haynes, and my torque wrench
Posted by burntheblobs, Mar-21-06 12:19 PM
Originally posted by DarkOne
Because they're rated in inch pounds, not foot pounds :)
Ha, made that mistake once without breaking a bolt. I honestly thought I had to torque a water pump bolt to 120ft-lbs. This bolt was 15 ft-lbs. I double checked.
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5904, RE: i hate aluminum, my car, haynes, and my torque wrench
Posted by Hult250R, Mar-21-06 01:30 PM
Because its a DSM
End of Thread :P
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5908, RE: i hate aluminum, my car, haynes, and my torque wrench
Posted by youkickedmydog, Mar-21-06 03:22 PM
80 percent of the force applyed to a bolt as it enters a thread is taken up by friction, use a thread lubercant like med strength loctight and it shouldn't happen... although it is a dsm.
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5922, RE: i hate aluminum, my car, haynes, and my torque wrench
Posted by burntheblobs, Mar-21-06 06:58 PM
I should just get a giant bin of grade 8 bolts.
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5988, RE: i hate aluminum, my car, haynes, and my torque wrench
Posted by Talontaxi, Mar-22-06 12:17 PM
Have the snap on man send in your torque wrench to have it calibrated, albeit I highly doubt its out of calibration enough to overtorque bolts enough to snap them. I have mine sent in 2 times a year.
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