Torque Wrench

[DJ Tera]

Looking to buy one very soon, does anyone know what torque range I should be looking at? 1/2" or 3/4" drive etc

Thanx!

[Manch]

You'd be lucky to find a decent torque wrench that covers the whole range for a duc, bearing in mind those little 8mm jobbies just need a bit of a squeeze and that wheel nut takes more of a HEAVE. Snap-on do a rather lovely 20Nm - 100Nm which covers quite a lot. Pretty expensive though but you do get what you pay for and the vans often have "special offers" which can take some of the sting out. They also do a nice low scale (5Nm - 20Nm) wrench for small fasteners....you know the ones that get over tightened and the thread strips! Both are 3/8 drive which IMHO is best for bikey type stuff.

[David Cook]

I don't think that you'd have a lot of call for a 3/4" one DJ.

The biggest that I use on the bike is a 1/2" drive which is man enough to tighten the rear wheel nut (c.186Nm)

[Nigel C]

got mine from Halfords 10nm to 60nm ok for most things apart from front spindle nut (though its only 5nm short for this so i do it up to 60nm) and rear wheel nut haven't taken the rear wheel off yet .

not a bad quality item either