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Old 12-15-2006, 11:33 AM
Cephallus Cephallus is offline
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Haha, I would never trust my feel for torque specs. A good friend of mine has been a certified mechanic for 25 years, and once bragged, when helping me with a project on my car, that he never needed a torque wrench (or specs) because he could 'feel' what the correct pressure for a fastener should be for a given application because of his experience. The result? He severely overtorqued the cap bolts on my cam towers and I had to replace all the bolts.
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