Cleaning Spark Plugs is a Simple Job...

Putting the plugs back in required using my other new tool -- a gigantic
Craftsman torque wrench. I had my A&P set the torque properly the first
time, just to make sure I wasn't mis-reading the danged thing and twisting
something off inside the engine.

If I read this correctly, you got the torque wrench that "breaks" at the
torque set on the handle.
When you finished, did you "properly" store the torque wrench?
(Just a test to see if you read the instructions that came with the
tool.)

When you finished, did you "properly" store the torque wrench?
(Just a test to see if you read the instructions that came with the
tool.)

Um, well, I very carefully put it back in the cheap plastic case it came in,
and wrapped the directions around the handle.

Was there more to it?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article NwoZe.161520$084.66032@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

When you finished, did you "properly" store the torque wrench?
(Just a test to see if you read the instructions that came with the
tool.)

Um, well, I very carefully put it back in the cheap plastic case it came in,
and wrapped the directions around the handle.

Was there more to it?

unlock it, and unload the setting (e.g., set the torque setting to the low
end of the scale).

--
Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule

Jay Honeck wrote:

Um, well, I very carefully put it back in the cheap plastic case it came in,
and wrapped the directions around the handle.

Was there more to it?

Jay,

He's trying to dazzle you with the brilliance that he knows to set the
torque wrench back to "zero" when you put it away. This relieves
tension on the internal spring, thus not wearing it out. (hope you did
this)

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane

In article NwoZe.161520$084.66032@attbi_s22,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

When you finished, did you "properly" store the torque wrench?
(Just a test to see if you read the instructions that came with the
tool.)

Um, well, I very carefully put it back in the cheap plastic case it came in,
and wrapped the directions around the handle.

Was there more to it?


Yup. You are supposed to reset the torque setting to zero when you put
the wrench away. Otherwise, the torque wrench can acquire a set and lose
calibration -- usually it will click early, or a a lower than designated
torque.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Our best guess at this
point is that it's something inside the right rear door -- but I haven't had
time to rip it apart to see.

A friend of mine worked on the warrantee line of a Datsun dealer back in the
late 70s. One day he got in a car with the same complaint you have. Opened up
the door and found an unopened can of soda with Japanese lettering. Near as he
could figure, the factory had a rule against food on the assembly line, and some
manager happened by just as one of the workers was about to open the can, so he
stuffed it in the door and put the panel on.

Al said it didn't taste very good to him.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Margy wrote:

I always find my mechanic is pleased when after using her tools I sweep
the hangar, go buy lunch, bring the sodas, etc.

And I just find that my mechanic gets ****ed when I use his tools. :-)

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

He's trying to dazzle you with the brilliance that he knows to set the
torque wrench back to "zero" when you put it away. This relieves tension
on the internal spring, thus not wearing it out. (hope you did this)

Well, nope, I sure didn't.

But I'll do it tomorrow when I'm at the hangar...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

But I'll do it tomorrow when I'm at the hangar...

Too late, you've ruined it!


(just kidding) :-)

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Why, because I *knew* it would **** you off, Jay!

ROTFL...

Well, that and you're one of those guys that thinks we have a limited
supply of lines Jay. Dontcha know, it's like oil...there is a finite
amount of lines to be written Jay...don't waste them man...the rest of
us have lines to write...come on man, play fair...please?

:-)




--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-IA Student
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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