In 1949 a neighbor was doing auto repair in his garage as a side along with farming and hauling milk. When I was putting the head back on my Chevy I thought I needed a tourqe wrench and ask Dad if he would buy one. He sent me to the neighbor to see if he would loan me his. The neighbor took me out to his garage and showed me an old ratchet and a pair of channel locks. He said that those had always been his torque wrench. When he had all the head bolts drawn down as tight as he could with the ratchet by hand he would pull on the ratchet with the channel locks until they lost its grip and slipped off. Said he had never lost a head gasket in all his years of auto repair. From that I got the idea that exact torque readings was not that important except in rare cases. Of course the auto and tractor engines of the time were lower compression engines. Drop your rocks folks as this is just a memory about torque wrenches from an old mans past Not Advise.
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Today's Featured Article - Tractor Profile: Oliver 70 Row Crop - by Staff. The Oliver 70 was part of the "Fleetline Series" and was manufacturered from 1937 to 1948. The row-crop configuration could have either dual or single front wheels. The Oliver 70 was also offered in the standard, orchard and industrial configurations. The tractors were sold in Canada. An early advertisement states "Power when you want it - power when you need it - power to help put in crops when field conditions are right and time and help are limited. That's the power you'll find in an Oliv
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