I'm sure ive got 4-5 laying around id give you special deal on, $50 for you!

Ouch!

 

Do they have a Spoon logo on them?

 

I learned to just hand tighten anything on the VC ever since snapping one on my Civic years ago. The torque spec is something like 15 ft/lbs with is nothing.

 

No, apparently even better. Generic OEM Honda lol

 

People, there's nothing wrong with buying a proper sized torque wrench and doing it with a torque wrench. I've lost bolts when I didn't tighten them enough. I've also snapped a bolt or two when I overtightened. Get the right size torque wrench, do the proper spec, and it will be fine.

Just because you CAN do it by hand, doesn't mean thats the RIGHT way or the ONLY way.

Do you think Boeing puts together airplanes via the German "gudntit" method?

 

if you are snapping off bolts thats more of a problem with the installer than anything else. you cant tell me that a bolt that holds down the wire loom bracket that supports the horn circuit under the dash is so critical that the BEST way to do it is getting out a torque wrench thats set to 10ftlbs and with great caution, tightening it down. thats unrealistic.


real point is that theres critical and non critical bolts. yes a head bolt deserves factory called tq. no an interior trim bolt does not.

 

That's true. I was mainly trying to say that the option is there to use one and specs are provided. Telling everyone not to use a torque wrench is not the right answer.

When Honda put the car together every bolt was torqued down to spec.

 

8.7 lb-ft is pretty difficult to guesstimate.

Is anyone claiming the bolts will back out if torqued to this spec? Or is the claim to "just grunt tighten them?" As far as I'm concerned anything with a torque spec is worth following. Sometimes it makes not a twit of difference but I don't know enough about to know which ones I can ignore -- if any.

BTW these old threads are extremely useful to us new owners of old cars -- and these are are all old cars.

-- Chuck

 

Easily done with a torque wrench with inch lbs scale: 8.7 ft-lbs ~ 105 in-lbs
This is what I use for pretty much everything except structural fasteners on the car.

While we are on this topic, is there anywhere local that we can calibrate torque wrenches?

 

Some of us "old timers" have calibrated torque wrenches built into our arms and hands