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Originally Posted by Clipdat
Don't mean to give you a hard time for your comment, but why does nobody value torquing things to spec anymore? Why does the manufacturer even bother specifying torque specs if "good n tight" is fine?
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
If you work in the industry, or wrench cars enough, you can gauge what you can and can get away with not using a torque wrench on. It is really necessary to torque everything to spec? Maybe, maybe not.
And most manufacturers give you a torque range, so even that is not exact, and torque wrench's can often go out of spec as well. There are tons of variables.
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^This. Engineers have to spec out torque for various reasons: manufacturing, safety regulations, to meet quality standards, etc. Tech's use their real world experience generally know what is critical and what isn't, so they use their discretion to be more "efficient" at their job.
Do they have to be strictly followed? Eh, but they are already there, and somebody has already put the time and effort coming up with that number, so why not use it.
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Originally Posted by JeremyR
It's totally an easy thing to do, and I'm actually pretty OCD about things too, but I sold off my torque wrenches and most of my nicer tools when I left the car scene 6 years ago, a socket wrench set and some screwdrivers are all I really have now  |
I'd sell my shitty tools way before my nicer ones. I still have tools from my grandpa and even inherited some from my father-in-law, some of which he inherited from his grand pa. My OCD also make me send my torque wrenches, calipers and gauges out to calibration every couple of years...