[Dmcbrass]

A lot of truth to the above comments! The best use of torque settings are to get those of us, who don't work as a mechanic everyday, into the general range.

 

[bear]

One phrase for torquing we use in the aircraft industry was "Smoke tight, then a 1/4 turn". You'd have to visualize a small wisp of smoke coming from a dry bolt that got hot from friction.

In a more serious vein though, torquing bolts is a necessity, in aircraft, absolutely critical. On a car, lessee, you can warp the head, warp the brake rotors, have the suspension break, snap wheel studs, and the ever popular break off bolts in the manifolds.

There are a few, very few, folks that have calibrated elbows, I'm not one of them, so I've got 5 torque wrenches in my tool box. Almost done with my front suspension and have had to reset my torque wrench 7 times for all the torque values in assembling the front end. Lotsa fun.

 

[ging]

torque settings cont

GING's husband here,

I've discovered one more torque setting not mentioned above.

How about crank on the damn thing until the treads come out of the hole
I think I've got that one down
dan

 

[Killer Texas GT]

I have had the thread strip out or get burgered up enough where the bolt won't hold,get a bolt same thread size about a 1/2" to 3/4" longer install it form the inside of the bell housing out and us a nut a washer. This usauly happens on the lower right hand side of the bell housing. It also makes it easier to install the transmission the next time as you now have a rest point installed. If not I have four bell housings hanging on the wall of the shop and at least anot 4 or 5 in the over flow shop , one of which has beed polished out. And Gene needs me to make a houl to JAHJA again. Maybe November sometime.
rk

 

[Gary]

Torque

I usually go by the old tighten it to "half a turn before it breaks" theory.

 

[opelgt722002]

I have had the thread strip out or get burgered up enough where the bolt won't hold,get a bolt same thread size about a 1/2" to 3/4" longer install it form the inside of the bell housing out and us a nut a washer. This usauly happens on the lower right hand side of the bell housing. It also makes it easier to install the transmission the next time as you now have a rest point installed.
rk

Great idea Rodney. Found some thread restorer bolts at McMaster.com (inch type, no metric) which would probably work on that soft aluminum.