Greetings and Salutations; This is a typical M.O. for me; start of with a simple job and it spirals out of control in complexity. I started out replacing a torn CV boot. Whilst torquing down the bolts I wondered how accurate the click wrench was. It was not to hard to rig up something to compare it to my bar type torque wrench. There was a 12 foot-pound difference in one direction and about thirty ft-lbs in the other direction!!! This was a cheapy with "Shin-Ling" or something to that effect stamped in it. I guess you get what you pay for so beware. Drive Safely & Good Luck Ken Lewis<Kernersville,NC>86 VW crewcab;60 T-5 Coupe ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. |
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