Torque Wrenches

There is no law that says you have to use a torque wrench.

Get in there with a box end wrench, cinch 'em up good and tight, then get on with the day.

Allan

the wrench you need to add to your torque wrench

is called a cylinder head wrench .

First, you could take a socket to the bench grinder and grind enough off so it'll fit. Leave this socket in your toolbox and only use it for tight-clearance applications with a hand wrench, not an impact. You won't break the socket just tourqeing by hand.

Second, there's specialty bolt companies that make head bolts etc that take smaller size sockets. Maybe if nothing else that'd give you the clearance you need. ARP is one name of a company that produces these fasteners.

Like the other post said, maybe a crowsfoot socket would work. There's also specialty tools made that'll offset a socket from the end of a torque wrench. Check the major tool manufacturers websites. There'll be a chart you can find somewhere that tells you what the torque value would be with whatever length offset you use.

If looked on the net for physics sites, you could probably work out the extra torque exerted by the slightly longer lever.

When using crowfoot or other offsets you can either do some fancy math to add the additional torque produced by the added leverage of the offset or simply do your torque with the crowfoot turned 90 degrees from the wrench. A crowfoot turnred 90 is so close to actual torque that its negligible.

Thanks.

If looked on the net for physics sites, you could probably work out the extra torque exerted by the slightly longer lever.