I bought a torque wrench at Sears for 40% off. They didn't have a sale sign on it. It came up at the register.

 

If I can get 40% off on a torque wrench I'll take the risk of getting a craftsman.

 

There isn't a whole lot can go wrong with a beam-type torque wrench, and nothing to calibrate except for possibly having to straighten a bent pointer needle so that it points to zero. And they still make them.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...0070921x00003a


Norm

 

Well I was going to pick up a torque wrench but they didn't have any that could handle up to 250lbs. there in 1/2" drive which is what I want. Birthday present I guess.

I ended up getting a set of 3 ton jack stands and a 4 ton (yeah overkill) floor jack w/4-20" range on it. The jack stands were $25 and the floor jack was $169 on sale. Strangely though I can't find the floor jack on their website and I think it might be discontinued. Hopefully it isn't a POS because I found a review page for it and there were a lot of bad ones. Guess I'll be hanging onto that receipt.

 

What I've heard is that sometimes the original flushing isn't all that great, so the fluid starts out dirty and the seals take a beating. I just bought an aluminum frame jack and bled off a little fluid. It definitely wasn't clear, so I bled off more and replaced it. Kind of a PITA process, but the jack has worked OK at a number of autocrosses and doesn't leak so I guess I must have got it close enough to right. We'll see.


Norm