I see guys in here all the time showing off their new Harbor Freight or Amazon torque wrenches like they just scored some amazing deal. Honestly those things are dangerous. I work on my 2003 Tacoma in my garage and after 3 tries with a generic click-style wrench I snapped a bolt clean off on my lower control arm. My friend Steve who builds race cars told me those cheap wrenches can be off by as much as 30 percent right out of the box. That is a huge difference when you are torquing something critical like a cylinder head or a wheel bearing. I finally bought a used Precision Instruments split-beam off Craigslist for $80 and it has never let me down. Has anyone else had a cheap torque wrench mess up their project?
He just said 'son, if you can change a tire you can change pads and rotors, stop watching YouTube videos and just look at the parts' and after 4 hours of overanalyzing I had it done in 90 minutes flat, has anyone else had a simple job made way harder by reading too many tutorials?
Guy named Gene just eyeballed a whole wall section and it was dead on, said if you trust your eye more than a bubble you'll work twice as fast. Has anyone else tried skipping the level on simpler stuff?
I was swapping out the lower control arm on my Ranger last Saturday and that one bolt just would not budge even after a full can of PB Blaster and a 3 foot breaker bar. Ended up having to cut it out with a sawzall which took another hour and a half and I snapped two blades in the process. Has anyone else had a simple suspension job turn into an all day nightmare over one rusty bolt?
I tried it on an old 2-barrel carb from my '72 F100 that's been sitting for years. After three 8 minute cycles with some simple green and water, the jets were actually clean enough to see through. Has anyone else had luck with these things for small engine parts?
I was stuck on a seized brake caliper bolt this weekend, soaking it in PB Blaster for 20 minutes with no luck. Then I remembered a short clip where a mechanic heated the bolt area for 30 seconds and it twisted right off, so I tried it with my wife's hair dryer and it actually worked. Has anyone else had good results using heat on stubborn fasteners around the garage?