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Tighten until you hear the crack, then back it off a quarter turn.
Nah mate, some torque specs are so low that you’ll strip it out before you hear such a thing.
Like the water pump bolts on my brother’s Subaru. 7 ft/lbs was the torque spec. Now with the new bolts I had to put in there after having to drill and tap the block it’s at the correct torque spec. He cored all but 1 bolt out before I could stop him.
Just fill the hole with JB weld, put the bolt back in, and let the next guy think he broke it.
“What is a torque spec for 500 Alex”
Torque specs are really really important and not enough people know that to be the case
It’s no fun at all having to tap an engine block because someone didn’t RTFM. I’ve done it twice (on the same car 3 years apart) because my brother didn’t RTFM the first time, and then still hadn’t when he tried to do the water pump on his Subaru the second time. I told him that the next time it needs done to call me and I’ll do it for him for the cost of parts. He just has to call me and not fucking touch it.
For those that don’t know: RTFM stands for Read The Fucking Manual.
They’d know what RTFM meant if they RTFM.
Torque specs are really really important and not enough people know that to be the case
In other cases torque spec was pulled out of the tech writers rectum to avoid having people ask.
For that bolt, I’d say give it 5 ugga-duggas and call it good.
Nothing that a Few Squirts of Glue™ for extra strength won’t solve.
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Effing plastic fasteners, and dry wall…
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Unfortunately, he passed away in 2008; the site is now being maintained by his wife and close friend.
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Lmfao I didn’t read close enough clearly xD
I still give it an 83% chance that at least one random dude named Sheldon Brown has received a stranger’s credit card in the mail.
That’s a breaker bar.
That happened to me with plumbing once. It was very wet and expensive.
yeah, when you turn off a shower so good that the tap turns freely and water is flowing again, that is an expensive time!
That’s called Harley tight. Just take it back a quarter turn.
“guten tight”
“Tighten until you hear the crack, then back a quarter turn”
Famous German dad joke: “Nach fest kommt ab” - after tight comes off.
Was looking for this :P
Screw that.
Isntgonnafalloff lbs-ft of torque.
