Aldi torque wrench

Posted on 02/01/2021 11:07 by EmilysDad

But there are many here that obsess over wheel bolt/nut torque ... I admit that I don't use my torque wrenches for either car or caravan but I've yet to lose a wheel. 😉

Posted on 02/01/2021 21:03 by davetommo

Many and I mean many years go when I used to drive an HGV if we got a puncture we would change our own wheel as in those days we carried a spare. When we tightened up the wheel nuts we would put the extension bar on the wheel brace and jump on it for all we was worth, as we didn’t want the wheel coming off. Lots of artic trailers would when doing a tight turn snap their wheel studs, this would happen because the wheel on the forward axle scrubs under. After many years and much research it was blamed on the driver over tightening. 

 

 

Posted on 02/01/2021 21:48 by EmilysDad

cars' wheels don't scrub though, they might a little on a twin axle caravan or the twin axle of a MH  .... and HGV wheels tend to be a little bigger than those on a car or caravan 😉

Posted on 02/01/2021 21:57 by davetommo

The point I was making was the over tightening which stretches the studs and therefore weakening them.

Posted on 02/01/2021 22:30 by TomL

All the more reason to use a torque wrench at the correct setting.

Posted on 31/12/2020 22:41 by clarinetman

Hi for anyone wanting to invest in a torque wrench, Aldi have a special offer at £16.99 looks good to me and you might think you don’t need one but you do believe me.

Posted on 05/01/2021 11:10 by Amesford

I would get one, I check out caravan wheel nuts before a journey, friends of ours picked up their brand new caravan drove a few hundred yards up the road and a wheel came off evidently tyre bands had been fitted by a sub contractor at the dealers and the wheel torque had not been checked. It is so important that the mobile engineer who services our van asks us to watch him as he torque's the wheel nuts and get us to sign to witness he has done so 

Posted on 05/01/2021 12:54 by EmilysDad

and do you check the settings on his torque wrench and do you know what it should be set to? I've had ATS/Kwik Fit show me that the wheels were torqued up with a wrench after he'd used a windy gun. I pointed out to him that the wrench clicked without the nut/bolt moving at all .... it went way way over his head that the gun had tightened the nuts/bolts to silly lb/ft ... the wrench did nothing.