Sunday, March 20, 2011

Get a New Head and a introduce it to a Homemade Torque Wrench

Replaced the head after finding that as expected the valve seat had been burnt out, <Insert picture here>




Need to torque the 8 head bolts down to 23 ft/lbs, made myself a 2 ft cheater bar from a piece of galv plumbing pipe I found under the house. Bought a simple hanging scale for $4 in Healesville.  Combine these ingredients with a socket wrench and you have a simple and calibratable torque wrench.






As it is a 2ft cheater bar and 23 ft/lbs required, the head nuts were tightened till they reached 11.5 lbs (lbs is short for pounds for all you Gen X/Y'ers)