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Old 08-21-2016, 09:47 AM   #9
san rensho
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Originally Posted by jsceash View Post
If your charging that time to the customer. for a DIY guy?
The big problem from point is the average DIY guy is the torque spec for the axle nut. Unless you rent or borrow the heavy torque wrench the job suddenly get 2-4 times as expensive. 50-400 and 100-500 ft/lb torque wrenches are pricey for the average joe to just have sitting around for one or 2 uses.
Don't need no stinkin torque wrench. Take the torque spec, 340 and divide by your real weight (no cheating). That gives you a distance measurement in feet. Now take a long breaker bar and mark out calculated distance. With the breaker bar parallel to the floor, put a foot on the mark and stand on the bar with all your weight.

There, human torque wrench.

Torque=lbs x feet
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