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expired Posted by BeigeCemetery6723 • Oct 2, 2024
Oct 2, 2024 12:04 PM
Pittsburgh Pro Click Torque Wrench (1/2", 1/4" or 3/8" Drive Wrench)
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These wrenches work well, but they are finicky to setup, and if you do it wrong, they don't click. That's why they have such mixed opinions.
Whenever I buy a used car the plugs are on the checklist to inspect and the last Toyota I bought had plugs that were backed out a few full turns. That could have been catastrophic.
My mechanic says make it hand tight and don't yank on it. He's been doing it that way for 30yrs and never had an issue. That's a much larger sample size than any at home mechanic...
Whenever I buy a used car the plugs are on the checklist to inspect and the last Toyota I bought had plugs that were backed out a few full turns. That could have been catastrophic.
My mechanic says make it hand tight and don't yank on it. He's been doing it that way for 30yrs and never had an issue. That's a much larger sample size than any at home mechanic...
Whenever I buy a used car the plugs are on the checklist to inspect and the last Toyota I bought had plugs that were backed out a few full turns. That could have been catastrophic.
My mechanic says make it hand tight and don't yank on it. He's been doing it that way for 30yrs and never had an issue. That's a much larger sample size than any at home mechanic...
Spark plugs backed out a few full turns? Sorry, but I don't even find that claim believable. It seems unlikely that anyone would install them that loosely and I can't see them working themselves that loose either. At minimum, you are exaggerating.
Wouldn't be catastrophic if one of the plugs lost contact, you'd just have a misfire and the check engine light come on. More catastrophic if a brake fastener was undertorqued.
But where I mostly disagree with you is the suggesting that reading low is worse than reading high. If the wrench reads high, you can strip threads, cause galling, make fasteners difficult to remove, possibly need to replace the part with female threads if a helicoil wasn't sufficient to repair damage. If you under torque, you just need to check the torque again after 500 or 1000 or whatever arbitrary mileage and verify that they haven't loosened up (you should do this anyway). If they did loosen up, then retighten and check again. If they loosen up again, retighten but this time go a bit tighter. Wash, rinse, repeat until they hold proper clamping force.
Undertightening is only problematic if you don't check and verify down the road. Overtightening can ruin something on the first go. The only place where I'd be concerned about under torquing is with brakes.. but even with things like brakes and lug nuts, you should have audible indications before failure which would give you a heads up to pull over and double check your fasteners.
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