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Found out the torque on a Cessna 172 nose gear bolt is way lower than I assumed
I was doing a nose strut service on a 172 last month and went to look up the gear attach bolt torque, and the number in the manual was a lot less than I would have guessed by feel. I had been snugging them down for a while thinking tighter is safer, which is a bad habit I picked up working on trucks before I got into planes. The manual gives you a specific range for a reason, and over torquing can stretch the bolt or mess with the clamping load. Now I keep a laminated torque card in my box so I stop trusting my wrist. Has anyone else caught themselves over torquing a fastener just because it felt right?
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lopez.simon15d ago
Temperature messes with your torque wrench way more than people talk about. That click you trust at 70 degrees in the hangar isn't the same number when the wrench has been sitting in a cold truck all night. Seen it bite guys doing field work in winter.
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