A torque wrench is an extremely important tightening tool that you definitely don’t want to skimp on, especially if you’re ...

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The Takeaway: The Gearwrench 89620 torque screwdriver’s calling card is its ease of use, especially when it comes to getting bolts and screws to just the right level of tightness. See, it has a ...

Torque is a twisting force. The muscle you apply to the top of a screw-top jelly jar is torque. And when you use a wrench on a threaded fastener (such as a bolt, nut, screw, or stud), you're ...

It would seem, then, that if you torqued a nut or bolt to exactly 100 lb-ft, removing it would require exactly 100 lb-ft of torque applied in the opposite direction. But that's not the case.

Critical fasteners—cylinder-head bolts are the poster child here­—are so difficult to properly tighten that not only does the manufacturer specify torque-plus-angle tightening, the bolt is a ...

There is an upper value of torque beyond which the bolt can break when tightening. More likely, this upper value of torque will be reached after the bolt has been in service for a length of time.

As you tighten the bolt listen for a click sound, which indicates you’ve reached your set torque, and stop. Handle a torque wrench with care and never drop it, as that could throw it out of ...