I coulda swore that someone on this list posted a while back about
the click-type torque wrenches. This guy said that they needed to
be re-calibrated by a factory every year or so.
I believe it too. This summer, I bought a click-type torque wrench
to compliment my mechanical one. After accidentally dropping the
new torque wrench, I promptly snapped a water pump bolt on my other
car. I checked the torque against the mechanical type, and sure
enough, it was clicking at about 4 lbs. more torque than the
mechanical one.
Michael S. Lishego
http://www.mgb.bc.ca/virtualgarage/
1991 Mazda Miata
1986 Plymouth Turismo T1
1974 MGB
>I highly recommend that all of you that have the click style
wrenches give
>them to your neighbor to use
>on his mini-van. Then go buy a good old mechanical torque wrench
to use on
>your LBC.
>
>-JW
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