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When performing mechanical work on a vehicle, it’s crucial to know torque specifications. They refer to the unit of measurement for rotational force, or twisting, needed to properly fasten nuts and ...

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Many experts recommend retorquing your car's wheels within 100 miles after a tire rotation to ensure that the wheels are ...

Hundreds of nuts and bolts hold your car together, and many of those bolts have precise torque settings. Wrenching these sensitive parts beyond their specifications, could spell doom, as could not ...

We’ve all heard veteran wrenchers say they no longer use torque wrenches. After years in the industry, their bodies intuitively know when they’ve got the hardware right where it needs to be. I ...

SK Torque WrenchesThe remnants of an exhaust system dangled beneath the ancient bumperless BMW as a clean-cut kid approached the grizzled shop owner. "Sir, I'd be willing to work for you if I could ...

A torque wrench (two types of which are shown in Figure 3-7) is designed to tighten a nut, bolt, or screw to an exact degree to avoid under-tightening or over-tightening things. If you're replacing a ...

There’s no need to use a torque wrench to tighten 99 percent of the nuts and bolts on farm equipment. But if you work on engines, transmissions, final drives or other assemblies that require or ...

A breaker bar is one of those specialty tools that every home mechanic wishes they had sooner or later. It's useful for encouraging stuck nuts and bolts to turn as a last-ditch effort to remove them ...

So I'm in the market for a torque wrench. Primary use: tire lug nuts. Craftsman had some sales recently, but the handles were plastic. Fuck that. I did see that Harbor Freight had torque wrenches, but ...