Yup - you got it - use a BIG breaker bar (3/4" drive is better) and a heavy pipe as a leverage extender. Use black iron or galvanized pipe, not conduit or PVC. Measure out a known distance - 2 feet or three, just for ease of calculating, then bring out a scale (only if you are really anal) and work out the weight (in pounds) and the distance (in feet). Try to have the bar and pipe somewhere close to horizontal, the math has less error that way. But its not critical to success. The math will work out something like this - 2 foot cheater needs 128 pounds applied 3 foot cheater needs 85.3 pounds applied 4 foot cheater needs 64 pounds applied When using longer cheaters, the torque applied can easily exceed the required amount - so measure your distance from the socket carefully! Personally, I prefer to lift on the bar, but that does not always work when at large values like this. You can lift the tire enough that it starts to skid / slip! Don't thank me - thank some ancient Greek dude or other... Tom Salicos <Tom@SALICOS.COM> wrote: I'm reading on the Van-Cafe website that it takes 256 ft. lbs. to torque the nut on the front outer CV joint. How do most people do this? Rent a humongous torque wrench or guestimate with body weight and flex bar or ???? Thanks Tom Salicos '87 Syncro Westy EG-33
Evan Mac Donald 1984 Wolfburg 1985 GL 7 Pass. 1991 Carat Weekender 1972 Chevy P/U 1993 Bonneville |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.