Larry,
You are correct in that the torque will not be accurate. It will be off by
the ratio of the length of the torgue wrench to the lenght of the offset
between the square hole in the crows foot to the center of the wrench area +
the length of the torque wrench. Most likely this would be something like 15"
to (15 +1)" or about 1.06 to 1. So for a torque setting of 22 ft/lbs you'd
end up with 23.6 ft/lbs or there abouts. Anyway it would be off, but you'd be
within a couple of ft/lbs.
Harlan.
Larry Hoy wrote:
> A crowfoot socket will change the leverage on the torque wrench, causing an
> incorrect reading ... or at least I think that's the case.
>
> Larry Hoy, Denver, CO USA
> 1970 Daily Driver ~ 1967 Vintage Racer ~ 1969 Undergoing V8 conversion
> http://home.cwix.com/~larryhoy@cwix.com/
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> > Behalf Of MG4EVR@aol.com
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 6:45 AM
> > To: proudfa@navcanada.ca; niosh@pop.ma.ultranet.com
> > Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: RE: torque settings MG was WooHoo - sort of. <G>
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 4/8/99 6:33:18 AM, proudfa@NAVCANADA.CA writes:
> >
> > <<adjustment nuts -- especially since there's no way to use a torque
> > wrench
> > and screw driver at the same time.>>
> >
> > a crowsfoot socket will work....
> >
> > Dave 69MGC/GT
> >
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