Why does my torque wrench have these numbers on the side?

[john.thompson068]

If one foot pound equals 12 inch pounds, why does my Craftsman inch pound wrench have numbers 1-14 for every 10 inch pound increment? I am in the process of tightening my oil pan to 180 in lbs.

 

[Cranky]

I don't know....do you have a foot pound wrench? Just tighten to 15 foot pounds....

 

[john.thompson068]

My craftsman foot pounds wrench only goes down to 25 ft lbs.

 

[Histoy]

The other scale is "centimetre kilograms"

 

[Osyman]

Nm?

 

[john.thompson068]

Nope, nope, and nope. The correct answer is: the wrench has marks in 15 inch pound increments. For example, you go from the mark at 160 inch pounds to the next mark at 175 inch pounds. On the clicker, rotating from 0 to 0 equals 15 inch pounds. So to go from 175 inch pounds to 180 in pounds means turning the clicker to from 0 at 175 inch pounds to 5. Just figured that out this morning after fininishing tightening the oil pan bolts. I used the Molodin 40700 gasket and it did like it said it would. It did not squeeze out or split. I glued them to the windage tray using Indian Head, but as I was tightening everything down I noticed that the adhesive was squeezing out of the sides. So I decided I better let it dry overnight so that it wouldn't be acting like lubrication and let the gasket slip out or tear and split. The gasket is not a rubber or cork at all. It is like a tightly compressed fabric. I tried to cut some excess off with my razor blade and it won't cut it. It just sort of pulled some of the fibers loose.

 

[5.7 hemi]

If something requires say 240 inch pounds divide that by 12 and you have only a lb torque wrench then you just set it to 24 foot lbs. Vise versa if going from ft lbs to inch lbs.

 

[Histoy]

The other scale is "centimetre kilograms"

Sorry that I gave you the wrong info. I have the original style torque wrench with the swing arm. It has 2 scales... inch lbs. and centimetre kilograms side by side. I thought that's what you were asking.

 

[451Mopar]

Not sure which oil pan bolts your using, but I usually use some medium strength loctite on them so they won't loosen up later on.