{"id":3064,"date":"2009-10-10T00:41:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T10:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2009-10-10T00:41:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T10:41:29","slug":"angry-chinese-torque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/10\/angry-chinese-torque\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Chinese Torque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1010005.JPG\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3065\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/10\/angry-chinese-torque\/p1010005\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P10100051.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-GF1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1255133377&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"P1010005\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P10100051-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P10100051.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3065\" title=\"P1010005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/P1010005-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"P1010005\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Oh my throbing middle finger&#8230;. I think every begining mechanic should be required to have and use a torque wrench. For some reason everyone seems compelled to over torque oil drain bolts. I guess since they are large bolts they can tolerate quite a bit of overtightening, but if you look in FSMs (factory service manuals) the torque spec is quite low, typicaly in the range of 15 ft lbs or even less. So I was out in the garage tonight, the heat is finally bearable, and was slowly putting things back together with the swapped engine. Figured I better drain the engine oil. Put the small 3\/8 breaker on it and tugged at it. Ugh. Alright, fine, I&#8217;ll use the 1\/2&#8243; 20&#8243; long breaker. I&#8217;m working\u00c2\u00a0at an awkward angle, so the bigger bar should make it easier. It works, eventually, and suddenly, unfortunately. Going in\u00c2\u00a0the pull direction is usually a good habit, but didn&#8217;t save me this time since my arms were extended and the angles were wierd. My middle finger met metal car. Amazingly I did not drop the bar, but I was cursing up a storm. Owwie! This was a good one, owwie!<\/p>\n<p>That was it, I could barely muster removing the drain bolt. I&#8217;m done for today.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, this engine was out of the original FX and the last person who worked on it and did an oil change on it&#8230; was me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my throbing middle finger&#8230;. I think every begining mechanic should be required to have and use a torque wrench. For some reason everyone seems compelled to over torque oil drain bolts. I guess since they are large bolts they can tolerate quite a bit of overtightening, but if you look in FSMs (factory service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-Nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}