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Now you know where the term foot-pounds came from,...
foot-pounce!?! As in; how many feet should one jump
up in the air before he pounces on the breaker bar.
I know,..... I know,....... back in my foxhole...
Joe
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> jonathon <jemery@execpc.com> wrote:
> > While were talking M35, it's going to be some time
> before the TM's come, I'm
> > just currious what the wheel nut and stud nut
> torques are supposed to be?
>
> From memory, I believe the torque is supposed to be
> 350 ft-lb. I use a
> torque wrench on my other trucks, but when I saw the
> prices of torque
> wrenches in that torque range... I want back to my
> high school
> physics, and wrapped a piece of tape around the
> breaker bar to show me
> where to stand on it, with the bar horizontal, to
> get the torque
> right. I cut a "V" notch in the end of a scrap of
> 2x6 to support the
> outer end of the wrench while I'm standing on it,
> and I shim up the
> block of wood with various other 2x6 scraps,
> depending on which lug
> nut I'm tightening. The same block and scraps serve
> as shims to raise
> the bottle jack up. It's simple, but effective.
>
> The only problem with that method is that you might
> over-torque lug
> nuts around the latter part of the year, especially
> if somebody in
> your family roasts a really good Thanksgiving
> turkey... :-)
>
>
> --
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