Warning: Heard a guy at the truck stop in Billings say he never uses a torque wrench on injectors...

Said he just goes by feel after 20 years. I always use my 1/2-inch Snap-on digital wrench and follow the spec sheet. Has anyone else run into this mindset on the road?

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elizabeth_williams3mo ago

That Snap-on digital torque wrench is probably worth more than my first truck. I watched a guy strip the threads clean out of a cylinder head doing the "feel" method last year. He ended up needing a whole new head because the helicoil wouldn't hold. How do you even sleep at night knowing you might have left a thousand pounds of force on the table?

emmafisher3mo ago

My buddy did that on a crank bolt, @elizabeth_williams. Cost him the whole bottom end.

sandralee29d ago

Whoa, a whole bottom end from a crank bolt? That's like a two to three thousand dollar mistake right there if not more. I mean, @elizabeth_williams, your mention of that guy needing a new head from the "feel" method is exactly why I always break out the torque specs, even if it makes me look like a nervous wreck in the garage. That's a heavy price to pay for skipping five minutes of work.