Hi guys tightening torques for rear hub nuts Bentley book says 253 ft lb but my torque wrench only goes up to 140 ft lb any ideas besides a bigger torque wrench lol ???!!!???
11.5st = 170lbs. Stand (don't jump) on the end of your 18" bar = 1.5 x 170 = 255lbs. Then you need to jump it round to the next available split pin hole.
That'll be handy for getting it round to the next split pin hole. There are several holes so check them all then tighten to the first one the pin will go through. Come in a few inches from the end for the initial setting.
You would trash your nice torque wrench. I trashed a Halfords Chinese 3/4" drive cheese-metal breaker bar -admittedly it did have "do not use extensions" written on it. The 6 foot aluminum tube bent a lot too (an old Laser dinghy boom) . I also trashed a torque wrench using it for wheel nut removal.. It needed a lot of jumping with my weight a lot further out than 1.25 feet from the end of the bar (200lbs body weight) to shift the nuts.
If you happen to know a farmer , thay will have a tractor sized socket and breaker bar . you would flip the van over before you damaged one of those 3/4 inch drive sockets.
The 256lb torque setting is the minimum, it's then got to be jumped round to a split-pin hole so could end up a lot tighter, but they all come off with a long enough extension bar.
A 3/4" 1 metre breaker bar is an essential. Even when using mine to remove a gland nut, it bent in the most alarming fashion... A 1/2" job will likely snap. Use the Zed method, or stand on the bathroom scales, grip the end of a 1 metre/3 ft bar and push/pull until you get 6 stone lighter/heavier. This'll give the correct torque. Then, as Zed says, tighten it round to the next castellation hole.
snotty - some of us are just the right weight for the end of a std breaker bar. Agreed, 3/4" essential.
I got myself one of these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39-INCH-L...t=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item3cab71ae9e it might be a bit over the top but i feel it gives you a bit more confidence and its built a bit better if you are going to jump up and down on it. i used a 3/4" drive bar and broke it and twisted my ankle. Not great when your working on your own.
Cool. Been standing on my knuckle bar today well not mine didn't fancy breaking my snap on one so borrowed my mates one just in case lol ...!!!
