Re: Good way to get a bolt to 550 ft-lbs of torque?

Posted by Will Herring on August 27, 2008 at 20:17:23 from (136.176.105.80):

In Reply to: Good way to get a bolt to 550 ft-lbs of torque? posted by Will Herring on August 27, 2008 at 08:10:10:

Well, I used a 2 foot adjustible wrench, and then stuck a 3 foot cheater bar on it. I'll chalk it up to being "as tight as possible". The problem is that you have to spin the wrench parallel to the ground because the bolt heads are on the bottom side of the hitch, like where you would put a clip in your hitch pin.

I'd wager it's got a good 450 to 550 ft-lbs of torque on it. I'm not sure how hard I can pull upwards while laying with my back on the ground, but I'd say it was enough...

Yeah, we've split some sockets using cheater bars before. Or just jumping on the really long ones. Usually when working on the rear wheels of our tractors. Heck, the last one that broke, we were trying to take the rim off of our old Allis Chalmers WD.

Thanks for all the responses.

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