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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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I really would not worry about this. Using a torque wrench to accurately measure torque has very little to do with the tightening force which is what you really want to measure. Most torque settings are given for clean dry threads. I usually assemble with graphite or molybdenum disulphide grease so the amount of torque required to get the right amount of tightness is considerably reduced. IF you have all good threads then the testing of another for feel and applying a similar pull as previously suggested is good.
Think of this, we have all had to undo something that has fought all the way, such as a nut on some rusty thread or a spark plug that has been left to set. If you were to accurately torque these things then they would not be done up at all. Clean threads have some resistance under load, well lubricated much less. Torque settings are often near to being irrelevant.
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