Monkey Lads & Torque Wrenches

[Kneale Brownson]

Perfect illustration of why I take my wheels/tires to the servicefolks in 
another vehicle and remount them myself.  Of course, it also justifies my 
possession of additional vehicles  :~)


At 03:53 PM 01/30/2001 -0500, Mark W. Byrum, Jr. wrote:

>Took the 95 Sport 90 to NTB this morning to have a nail removed from a 
>tire and to rotate the tires front to rear (while I was at it).  I had to 
>insist on hand-torquing the lugs - and they still got it wrong, from where 
>I was standing.
>    First, I have yet to hear a cogent explanation of the "color coded" 
> ratchet extensions which miraculously apply just the right amount of 
> torque irrespective of the amount of air pressure one feeds the impact 
> driver.  Then, as respects hand-torquing, I always understood that one 
> needed to first loosen and then tighten a lug to the "click" with a 
> torque wrench to get an accurate torque setting.  Indeed, should I take a 
> solid block of steel and carve away on it such that what looks like a lug 
> nut protrudes, I could attach a torque wrench to it and get it to "click" 
> at any number of torque settings by merely attempting to tighten the 
> "lug."    Am I missing something?  As soon as I get home I'll just have 
> to get the torque wrench out of the basement and loosen and re-torque the 
> lugs at 80 ft/lb.
>Mark