Subject: 150 FT Pound Torque Wrench..

[mike]

or a 100 foot tube with a 2lb bag of sugar sitting on
the end

mike

 --- Christopher Ritchie <critchie1 at hotmail.com>
wrote: > >The
> >Bentley specifies 207 foot pounds as the torque
> spec for
> >re-installing the
> >axle nut...and I only have a 150 foot pound torque
> wrench.
> 
> Get a 1 foot pipe.  Put it over your wrench. 
> Tighten until a 207 pound 
> person standing on its end doesn't move it anymore. 
> Or a 2 foot pipe with a 
> 103.5 pound person.
> 
> I'm not joking - that'll work.  Also don't forget
> that 207 ft/lbs. in 
> engineering terms means wicked tight.
>
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