Torque wrench.

[The Pastor]

it snapped off in the wheel hub.

I'll take it to an engineering shop on thursday, but its a purpose made bolt, i dont think i'll be able to get anything to replace it.

unless you have some ideas?

[Ixion]

Drill it out and see your friendly local parts department for a replacement?

[The Pastor]

yeah i know, but it will be a 2-3 month wait and its $15 a bolt >_<

i'll try the wreckers tomorrow... Im not holding my breath.

[Ixion]

Fuck, its a ZXR250. There must have been thousands of them wrecked. PM Skidmark hes bound to ahve one.

[Ixion]

Alternatively, how many bloody bolts do you need to hold a hub on?

[The Pastor]

Fuck, its a ZXR250. There must have been thousands of them wrecked. PM Skidmark hes bound to ahve one.

cbr250RR. If it makes a lick of differance. And i think mark sold his bike, or at least most of it.

Alternatively, how many bloody bolts do you need to hold a hub on?

6 per disc.

[Motu]

As a result i overtightend a bolt, and it sheared off.

As a result of over reliance on a torque wrench.I don't use a torque wrench much,only on really specific fasteners.You need to develop a ''feel'' for tightening various nut and bolts,then you can tighten everything perfectly without relying on a crutch.As an apprentice I was ''taught'' how to tighten bolts - my boss would watch and then check how tight they were....then he'd give me the go ahead to do the rest.He did this for a few weeks - then I was set for life.

[glice]

unless you have some ideas?

where abouts do you live, theres a good bolt shop on archers rd in the shore and I'm always surprized what they have.

supercheap auto have a sale on at the moment with a torque rench in it. its a superworks one which is just sidcrome with a different name on it, so its good stuff, with a life time warrenty.

[Edbear]

So, replace the bolt? Bolts break tis a fact of life, even with torque wrenches
(or indeed torque wenchs, but then who cares)

Sounds rather painfull...

As a result of over reliance on a torque wrench.I don't use a torque wrench much,only on really specific fasteners.You need to develop a ''feel'' for tightening various nut and bolts,then you can tighten everything perfectly without relying on a crutch.As an apprentice I was ''taught'' how to tighten bolts - my boss would watch and then check how tight they were....then he'd give me the go ahead to do the rest.He did this for a few weeks - then I was set for life.

Yup! Learned that way, too... I'd tighten until it just snapped, then back it off a fraction...

[vifferman]

If the wrench is used as a power bar, ie for tightening high torque nuts with the torque setting set low, you can bend or break the internal gizmo thing (technical term). Ditto if used for loosening ...

True dat...

[The Stranger:Me]

i have four in total

WTF?
How did you get away with that.
General consensus on KB is that even one is totally superfluous and can lead to a general haranguing.
Go immediately, dump the lot of them and in future stick to threads about how to remove snapped bolts, how to install helicoils and how to locate lost brake calipers, sump plugs etc.

[imdying]

how often in reality d' y' encounter a left hand thread.

Heh, my clutch master cylinder reservoir... took a whole lot of heaving before I found it undid easily the other way Apparently the ones sent to customers were marked, except mine...

[pritch]

I've got an old Norbar. When I bought it it was proudly emblazoned with the claim that it was the standard torquewrench throughout the British car industry.

That still worries me...

[Edbear]

I've got an old Norbar. When I bought it it was proudly emblazoned with the claim that it was the standard torquewrench throughout the British car industry.

That still worries me...

Say what you like about the British car industry, but their nuts and bolts were always done up perfectly...

[Motu]

Say what you like about the British car industry, but their nuts and bolts were always done up perfectly...

True - after more than 2 decades working on British vehicles (until they disappeared overnight) I can't remember one wheel stud stripping or shearing off,bolts you torqued up,came undone at the same torque,not 10 times what they were tightened to,and every bolt tightened stayed that way,not coming undone a week later.Something has gone awry in the metallurgy department I think.