am i fucked?!

[884door]

Nice thread bump for an old school deflecting bar torque wrench. Shit it must be accurate to less than what 50%?

Yea probably, if I ever did any torque-specific jobs I'd just go buy a new one but I never do. :-/

[SamE30e]

22lbs? I thought the 45lbs they told me was low. That can't be right. I am using said bolts, and if its lose enough to be mixing oil and water at 45lbs then no way is 22lbs enough. They are still stretch bolts and they didn't even stretch until after 40 something pounds. And 1
180 turn aka 2 90 turns is not equal to the missing 10lbs. Where did u get this info? It seems very iffy to me. Plus 22lbs is very very low. That can't be more then 1 or 2 turns past finger tight. Doesn't seem very tight for a seal.

Did you re-use the old headbolts?

[b*saint]

How old is your torque wrench?

[619E30]

yes new bolts, and okay thanks the print out the guy gave me said 45lbs. drained oil its same shit. how can i drive it out? will wd40 do the trick or what? and sorry about bad pics. its a cream color. still has oil feels but seems nasty.

Autozone doesn't know shit

[evil_twin]

Yea it was just to get an idea of how tight they were, then i used a massively long breaker bar to loosen them, the torque wrench was not long enough. I dont think it would affect it's accuracy at all because head bolts don't "Break" loose, they just budge a little at a time (at least in my experience). Mine is one of the old style wrenches like so: http://priuschat.com/shop/images/torque.jpg
I could see a newer style "clicky" wrench being a lot more fragile to this.


Sorry to bump the old thread btw. lol

I have both, a clicking style and a flex bar torque wrench. Definitely nice to have both since I can check the torque on some bolts and the rotating assembly when the motor is all apart.

Nice thread bump for an old school deflecting bar torque wrench. Shit it must be accurate to less than what 50%?

I believe they're still pretty accurate for the most part. The new style clicking torque wrench definitely goes out of spec a lot quicker and easier than the flex style.