Hey everybody, this is Paul again. I just went out and one things that I realize it's gonna
need as part of this 97 chevy s-10 project was a torque wrench I've never used one of these tools and I could easily go ask some
friends that I know have them and know how to
use them but that really defeats the purpose of
this channel and what we're doing here. So what I did was I went down to the auto parts
store and I was hoping I was gonna find me a real fancy digital torque wrench that I could just tic
up and tic down.
I can set my foot pounds and then have a field day with it. once I
wanted those I realized the they're pretty expensive
and they're in the Rangers a 100 to 150 dollars for a
decent digital torque wrench and I
really you know not I don't have that kinda
money thrown around tools so I found this guy and this is a the kinda like an off-the-wall I don't even
know what brand it is be honest with you and it's not written on any of the
documentation or the little pamphlet is there's a little pamphlet that came with it and is not
anywhere on there So…
Here's a twenty dollar torque wrench K I went online last night I spent about
a half an hour trying to transcribed these
beautiful instructions into something that would make sense to
me I finally found one YouTube videos really good and he answered the one question I had I'm hoping that with this video I'm
gonna save you about 30 minutes your day and we can answer all your questions so you don't have to go online and look at a bunch a
different videos to get that one question and answer First thing you want to do is. This is
a inch pound torque wrench so the irony is i'm looking for.
foot-pound everything's in foot-pounds in my maintenance guide so I was I wasn't sure how many inch pounds were in a foot pound right and I felt pretty stupid when I flip this guy over and right at
the bottom here now its gonna catch but you'll see one foot
pound equals 12 inch pounds.
Now if you take the pound
off the end of that and you ask me Paul how many inches are in a foot I could a told you. So we want to start with the instruction okay ladies when you he say that we never
read the instructions it's because you're asking us to build things we are really not
interested in in this case where interested in this so i'm going to read the instructions and you know they get really cryptic I'm
not I'm not familiar with the industry that built this tool and I'm not
familiar with the industry and learning but I'm not familiar with the industry
that uses this tool so some other terminology gets a little crazy I'm gonna read through this
and then I'm gonna gonna go through the example where going to do the sample and I hope that answers any questions
you have about these a non digital torque wrenches and makes to where you can actually
use this thing how to use your new torque wrench
balancing wrench in hand with gradations visible unlock the knurled handle by turning
the lock not counterclockwise this said to see figure 1.
So I'm looking at this and i go well where's figure one? That's figure 1 right there that kinda
looks like the back of this guy and I you know and I know hung up on a
couple things like gradations and the word knurled and it spell with the K so I kept
calling it canurled I went online and I looked up and on the Dictionary dot com and I looked up the
word knurled in all knurled is the lathing technique that applies this
diamond pattern into the handle so what they're saying is all they had
to do is say turn handle but they say turn KNURLED handle and it throws me off again simple stuff but okay so we have
a locked oops I took it away sorry. we have this
this right here so I'm turn it counterclockwise to loosen up
and then you have a couple settings here we have the this in
inch pounds on this side and on the other side we
have it in Newton how we're not from England or Europe so
we're gonna stick with the inch pounds cuz i kinda works for me so I'm gonna go ahead and set this to 0
okay and so now we r inch pounds and we have worked it out 0 so your ish this particular ones within four
percent on accuracy according to the instructions so you can see that
okay so now what you're looking at is our graduations are set to 0 the then there's a vertical bar here you can
see these little slide bars coming from numbers and those numbers count up
in a increments of a 120 inch Pounds their example says to set this to 504 inch pounds what you gotta do as you
turned his oops i keep taking this out of focus
are we're gonna turn this knurled handle clockwise to you move it move it up and it's going to slide up this arm here
until we get to the right setting okay so it's gonna be kinda hard for me
to do this while you're watching but I'm gonna give it my best shot so as
you can see is a turn this it slides up the bar alright we want to
take it to 480 because we're gonna set this to 504 and so where's my 480 is up there and
up their end up there so we're gonna take this to 480 and you see what I'm doing is i'm stopping I gotta set it to 0 right at to 480 there it is okay so i'm going to let this focus again alright and you can see there's the 480 you see it comes down his ear that slide touches the vertical Bar and its at 0.
So now
we're a 400 eighty foot-pounds of torque and my memory that I think that's
forty pounds foot-pounds of torque for 480
inch pounds of torque so now I need to get to 504 so what I
will do is I'm gonna take this what they call the graduations and I'm gonna go I'm gonna count up two. one two this is actually I believe it's
basically this is foot-pounds so two foot-pounds
two times 12 would be 24 so I'm sitting at 480 on
my little chart here so I'm gonna click
this I'm gonna move this over to where the two lines up with the vertical line comes did it because
it gets kinda that's coming turkey it on their her got okay so now the two is on a vertical
line okay and you see we're just passed the 480 that for a slide mark okay so now that two represents and set this back down for second the
two represents 24- inch pounds of
pressures so you add the 24 inch pounds to the 480 any get 504 inch pounds of pressure so
when they talk about setting in the instructions they're using example 504 inch pounds that translates to forty two
foot pounds of pressure being applied to the bolt so I hope this
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