What the best pound range for a torque wrench would be for these trucks, and what the best brands to buy are???

Thanks

 

i have a 1/2 drive husky. comes with the full warranity. you have to watch craftsman because all there tool exept power tools and torque wrenches come with the full warranty. they have only like 90 days or something. i got mine at home depot for around $70 buxs.

 

i have a 1/2in proto it goes up to 150 ft/lbs it has a life time warenty and has worked to all my needs

 

I have 3... 2 huskey's and a craftsman. 1 husky is a 1/2 drive and I think it goes to 250 lbs, the other is a 3/8 drive and is in inch lbs. the last one goes to 100 ft lbs and is the craftsman, it's a 3/8 drive also. i've used all 3 at one time or another... of the 3, i prefer the husky ones. they seem to be better built and the craftsman doesnt have the warranty to back it up.

 

if your running a manual tranny and plan on doing a clutch, you need one that goes down to 30 ft pounds. Keep the low end in mind, some of them go way up there but start at 60 ft pounds. Look into the manual for torque specs so you can get a good one.

 

i got 2.. craftsman 0 - 300 ft lb 1/2 drive and a 0 to250 inch-lb 1/4 snap on..

all my hand tools except a choice few are craftsman..for the reason tani stated above... i brok 2 wrenches before ,,,defenatly using them in the wrong way ... and i just walked into sears, and walked back out with 2 new ones... well.. i went to the customer service first...i didnt just walk in swap thm off the shelf and leave..

 

You can turn just about any wrench into a 'torque wrench' by purchasing one of those digital readout fisherman scales and pulling on the handle of the wrench at a right angle.

Measure from center of bolt/nut to where you are pulling on the wrench handle.

It is also easier to check the accuracy this way, just check to see if the fisherman's scale reads correctly.

 

yea i heard thats a good way to make sure your clicker tq wrench is calibrated well

 

I disagree. take a 5 foot section of pipe, slip it over the end of a wrench and take your fishing scale and put it a foot from the bolt you are tightening and pull that scale until it gets to 25 pounds. now take that scale and put it 4 foot away from that bolt and pull til it gets to 25 pounds, at the 4 foot mark it moved alot more than it did from the one foot mark. this is an overexageration, but when you need 30 ft pounds and you pull on the wrong spot it may end up being more or less than that, I'd get a good wrench for when it matters most....

 

Kolkut you do not understand what torque is,
if you think putting the scale at 4 foot and pulling it to 25 lbs is the same as pulling 25 lb at one foot.

At four feet it is 100 ft-lbs. (25 x 4)
At one foot it is 25 ft-lbss. (25 x 1)

The first time I used a fish scale to torque a nut
it was with a 10 foot extension to put 500 ft-lbs on the flange bolts of a 20 inch by 20 inch centrifugal pump driven by a 1200 horsepower electric motor.