Torque angle guage
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I finally bought one on Amazon. I used to “eyeball” it. Angle gauge is better.
How many are you planning on tightening? If just a one time thing, just mark the fastener at 90 120 180 or whatever degrees you want and tighten it to that.
Have one of these but only really needed if you're doing repetitive fastening like replacing a head gasket.
Where is the Neg. clamp....Have one of these but only really needed if you're doing repetitive fastening like replacing a head gasket.
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Serious question. Is it backlit, is that what the hot wire is for?Have one of these but only really needed if you're doing repetitive fastening like replacing a head gasket.
You’ve got to hold the dial part from turning, that way the pointer ends up moving with the wrench, and the socket.
Mine has a post instead of the clamp, but either way you’ve got to fix the dial so that it doesn’t turn
FWIW, I think you are overthinking this...
- Torque the fastener to 59lbs.
- Take your torque wrench and put it at 3 o'clock, turn to 6 o'clock, that's the 90 degrees.
- For 60 degrees take the torque wrench off and look at the head. Mark, one point between 2 flats and line up the next point, that's 60 degrees.
Just my $0.02
Yeah i’m probably overthinking it ,i guess where the back bolts were recessed i didn’t want to have to screw around with a marker.I tend to be a little fussy on some stuff but i never have a do over either.I do the same thing with our pulling tractors but some times that little extra time pays off.I don’t like to be close i’d rather be right on lol
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Cool. Never seen this style before. TIL.
