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Watched a guy torque a head with a $40 beam wrench at a swap meet in Reno, changed how I check my work
I was at the Reno swap meet back in April, just walking the rows looking for a decent set of inch-pound sockets. There was this older guy with a folding table, nothing fancy, and he was torquing down a small block head right there on the tailgate of his truck. I stopped because I figured he was just showing off a part he wanted to sell. He let me watch him run through the whole sequence, and he did it in three passes, then went back and checked every bolt with a beam wrench he said cost him $40 in 1998. What got me was he marked each bolt with a paint pen as he went, so he could see at a glance he had not skipped one. I had been doing heads for years with a click wrench and just trusting the feel. After that I went home and started marking my bolts with a paint pen too. It has saved me twice now from backing out for a recheck and dumping the sequence. Anyone else use a paint pen or marker on their torque sequence, or do you just go by sound and feel?
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