Posted by Dusty MI on December 19, 2012 at 04:50:32 from (76.250.62.134):
In Reply to: Torque wrench posted by Slowpoke on December 18, 2012 at 20:54:08:
I needed to do that once. I turned the crow foot so it was out the side, then the torque is the same, the lenght of the torque wrench is not any longer.
If the crow foot is 1" long, and you put it stright out, and the torque wrench is 12" long then you have increased the torque on the nut 1/12. So if you set the wrench at 100 lb. then it would be 112 lb. of torque that you applied.
Dusty
This post was edited by Dusty MI at 04:51:56 12/19/12.
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