just went into work to use the vice to take the bearings out of the front hub on the 3 dr, got it all set up could not loosen it by myself so get a ten foot scaffold bar and added little pressure, it bent the torque wrench so much it snapped off, i got a plan though got biger torque wrench in reme workshop stanby that hub

 

thats because a torque wrench is for doing things up you muppet!

 

Are you turning it the right way?

 

you sure you are trying to undo it not do it up by mistake

 

 

You never undo a bolt with a torque wrenck


cheeRS stu

 

i do

but i've got one of them that goes up to 500 lb/ft and is 4 foot long

seeing as i cannot put more than 300 lb/ft of torque on it before i am unable to get it to bend i think it's a bit of overkill, but it's great for head bolts

 

torque wrenches are fopr doing stuff up

you need a stronger/longer breaker bar

10 foot scafold pole on a tourque wernch and it snapped, i'm not suprised!!

next you'll be telling us you used a 3/8 or 1/4 inch drive

 

 

I think people get confused with Torque Wrench and Torque Multipliers.


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Why not use the 1" drive breaker bar and socket set REME have ?
As said make sure it is not a left handed thread.
tabetha

 

my old dad pissed off a trader at an airshow selling those "one-size-fits-all" sockets

they had bolts lined up in a lump of metal for you to tryit out on

dad tried a couple of different sizes and was quite impressed, and asked the bloke if he'd ever had any breakages

"you'll never break one of those mate!"

cracking noise proved otherwise!

ps anyone who's met me will know i do not share my fathers superhuman strength gene!

 

why use a calibrated tool to remove a nut