[DeTomaso] Torque question

boyd casey boyd411 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 14:31:29 EDT 2010


Asa,
This guy wasn't at a tire shop (he may have one) but I only dealt with him
online. He is the vendor I had make my wheels.
Boyd

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:

> Quoting:
>
> > Quoting a torque setting of 75 ft/lb and then saying go 100 ft/lb is
> >  a little ludicrous, this is not a situation where you want to go
> > that bit extra for 'safety'.
>
> Sounds like a lame way to indicate they aren't even using a torque
> wrench for final torque.  Here is what I have observed on several
> occasions at the tire shop:
>
> They zip the lug nuts on with an air wrench.  They then follow behind
> with a torque wrench... but nothing ever turns.  i.e. the nuts are
> already torqued to the value set on the torque wrench and in fact are
> most likely way overtorqued.  But their "torque wrench pass by hand"
> validates they are torqued (at least) to the value they have set on
> their torque wrench.
>
> It bugs the crap out of me every time I see them do this.
>
> Asa Jay
>
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