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Originally Posted by jim
Hi
Im finally assembling my Tenere again and Ive run into an old familiar problem: on the RHS of the cylinder are 2 size 14 nuts that have to be torqued down but you can only access them with a spanner from the side (ie you cant get a socket onto them) so how does one measure the torque? In the past I gave up and did them by hand, but there must be trick to this?
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Here is the trick:
Just use a short crown spanner and fit the torque wrench on the other end in a 90 degrees angle with an Allen socket.
Extracted from the net:
“---Adapters can be used at the drive end of a torque wrench. That is, should one need to torque a tubing fitting or a fastener that cannot be accessed directly on line with its axis. A crows-foot on a torque wrench is an example. Adapters can be fabricated from old tools or any of the cheap tools.
Adapters can extend along the wrench’s centerline or extend out at 90 degrees from the drive end. Any angle between 0 and 90 degrees is possible. At angles other than 90 degrees, dimensions of the critical parts on the wrench as well as some simple math are required. Adapters extending at 90 degrees from the drive end induce no error in the scale reading—“
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