myw

its crazy how 'viral' this thread has become.

Bruce In Philly

I never thought this question would draw so much... um ... pride? I guess when you own a torque wrench, you gotta tell the world!

Honestly, there are more gear heads on this forum than I thought.

Hey Gear Heads: POST MORE! You are the guys and gals that have the valuable stories and insights.

Peace
Bruce in Philly

justinsrx7

It's not a good idea to leave your torque wrench set at anything other than zero when you store them. The reason for that is posted here.

http://www.ehow.com/how_7472056_stor...es.html#page=2

Having said that, perhaps there are styles of torque wrenches that I don't know about where this doesn't matter, but for the click type, this seems to be the storage procedure. No point in having a torque wrench that is only fooling you into thinking you are setting the correct torque.

FullThrottle64

I have a calibrator at work that I check with once a year or so - not much change after 5 years of doing it this way, but the principle of always unloading the tension seems sound. My bigger concern is forgetting that I re-set the 115 ft lb TW to 80 ft-lbs when I only have a short amount of time between track sessions. Standardizing the tools to a single setting is a common "lean" factory practice that I've adopted for personal uses to save time and minimize mistakes. I'm also lucky that on my race car the wheel nut torque is the same setting as the pinion nut....

theporscheguy

I have a couple that I use all the time. The last time I chose the path of least resistance to road force my wheels/tires on my 951 the tech asked me about the variance in torque from 96 to 600 pounds on Porsche's and what i wanted the lugs torqued to...... At least he asked.

Canyonrs4

I have 2, 3/8 and 1/2 with a rolling tool chest and a complete assortment of metric tools, 3 floor jacks and jack stands...

Nothing better than wrenching on a Porsche, although they are getting harder and harder to do DIY's on.

McCrazy

I have 2. One in ft-lbs and one in in-lbs.

mhm993

If anyone is moved to purchase an American made torque wrench, from a family owned business, I happened to find this:
http://store.harryepstein.com/cp/Torquewr/97353.html

No relations, of course, but Harry Epstein is well known and beloved by many of us tool infatuated types.

997v2cabrio

I have one 3/8" Snap On with a 1/2" conversion for oil changes, and anything else that I need.

Vjgtrybno1

Had a few lug nuts come off my X5 after torqueing with a 3 year old HF. A friend who uses a torque wrench tool daily said that to get the 96 I needed, my HF needed to be at 130. How do you recalibrate them once they are out of kilter?

kosmo

You dont. Buy a new one.
My hf wrench was spot on vs my techs.

MessyMarvin

I only have one, one of these days I might pick up a smaller one.

Vjgtrybno1

That's what I thought... Santa?

MessyMarvin

I think the real question should be how many P-Car owners do NOT own one???

terbiumactivated

I inherited three, one dainty one for low torque apps, a medium range and a big brute, 45 year old, Williams, split beam torque wrench which can do the heavy work and split the parietal bones of looters too.