Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Why Must You Be Such A Dick?
So anybody who has been reading this lately is aware of this whole earth shattering situation of the overtightened lug nuts. Apparently he went up there today and with his own two eyes they showed him that it was only torqued to 98 lb/ft. Because yes, I broke twisted a 1/2-3/8 adapter in half and started rounding off the lug nut itself to get it off to no avail prior but supposedly he watched them use a torque wrench to take it off and the needle only went to 98. Of course that would be fine and well if you could actually do that. You can't measure torque to loosen anything because you need a jolt much higher than the torqued value to break it free. A gradual 100 lb/ft. pull will not loosen a 100 lb/ft. bolt, however a jolt of 150 will break it loose and then you can turn it off with your fingers usually. So unless this place is the first place to ever be able to measure this accurately and my air gun with 600 lb/ft. of breakaway torque was just somehow defied by the laws of torque and that piece breaking in half was a total coincidence he can fuck off and die. He's just upset he had to drive 44 miles each way because they fucked up and he feels like I should have labored for hours or borrowed giant breaker bars from someone to avoid him having to go up there. But anyhow, Shinedown is tonight and I hope it goes well because I have some doubts to the whole situation.
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