Showerthought: I was torquing injector lines wrong for way too long

I was always using a standard torque wrench on those high-pressure lines, thinking it was fine. Then a guy I work with, Mike, saw me do it and said, 'You know that's gonna give you a false reading on the pipe threads, right?' He showed me to use a crowsfoot adapter on the wrench to get the right angle. I tried it on a Duramax yesterday and the difference in feel was huge. Anyone else have a simple tool trick that fixed a basic job?

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3 Comments

casey7871mo ago

That old Snap-on catalog had a whole section on crowsfoot torque adapters.

spencer3771mo ago

Remember my buddy trying to torque a line on his truck's power steering. Bought a crowsfoot, didn't read the math part... snapped the fitting clean off.

sandra14623d ago

I mean, that "didn't read the math part" bit is kind of funny but also the guy was probably just rushing. Honestly I've seen guys torque hydraulic lines with a regular wrench and a beam style torque wrench and get away with it fine for years. If the fitting was that brittle it was gonna snap anyway, the crowsfoot just sped things up.