At my Wallyworld, they aren't necessarily the sharpest tools in the shed. Let's say your torque spec is 90 ft-lb. They get out the rattle wrench and the 90 ft-lb springy socket. They don't know or care if the wrench is more powerful than the torque limiter was made for. They hammer the lugs down nice and tight. They get out the clicker torque wrench and it clicks on every lug without moving any of them. Then they go out in the parking lot and do some autocross. Bring the car back in and use the torque wrench again. Nope of the lugs move during torquing. Perfect! Every lug is exactly torqued to 90 ft-lb, and their torque wrench proved it. I talked to the girl doing the torquing and she truly believed it.
The system works for them, because it's impossible to break a lug with the limiter, and it's impossible to undertorque and have the lugs fall off unless you skip multiple steps in the procedure. So it's superior to the procedure used at every Chevy dealer when they do oil change&rotation. Thanks, but no thanks. Next time I'll just bring you the wheel. > On October 25, 2019 at 9:14 AM Curley McLain via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > THeisen's farm store uses the torque wrench, and I have seen them look > up the spec. Once in Wallyland, I think maybe the one up in Mitch's > part of the world, i saw them use a torque wrench. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
