Database for Tires?

[Peter Serwe]

hlava wrote:

> Be nice if I didn't have to do anything more than that. Don't know about
> Autozone(we have them here), but they just opened a Harbor Freight store
> here in town. I'll have to browse their website and see what they're asking
> for a torque wrench... $25 would be hard to beat, though.

I don't know how much this helps, but I was poking around on ebay
searching for 'torque wrench' or maybe 'snap on', and came up with
Snap On's TQ250R, bid a high of something like $100, and ended up
getting it for $80, plus a few bucks shipping.  Wow.  The King of torque
wrenches, click-type, anywhere from 40-250 ft/lbs, 1/2" drive, set the dial,
snap the locker down, and torque away.  This thing hasn't been calibrated
for a few years, it still put down 68, shooting for 70.  Worked great for
torquing
up my 355 chevy a few weeks ago, works great for 80lbs lug nuts.  I will
have to send it in for calibration sometime, but the KD tools 1/2" clicker is
more
expensive than what I payed, and about 1/4 the tool.

I've heard, and seen, that a bar-type oldschool wrench works great, and it
does.

I think it's just easier to be precise to lightly push until you hear the
click, and do it again
making sure you don't push past the click, rather than sit there, making sure
you put the
needle right in the perfect spot, effectively speaking 'eyeballing' it.  I
don't trust my eyes as
much as I do my hands/ears :P  I went and got glasses so I could see road signs
driving.

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