tightening help

[stainesy]

Going to change my drive shaft today but reading the haynes manual it says about 3 stages of tightening the hub nut. I aint got a torque wrench so do I realy need to use one? Can I just tighten up all the bolts without one?

[dansmk3]

if your good with gaugeing strength here is a way of working out torque without a wrench.

if you need to tighten 10Nm - this works out as the pulling force of pulling 1Kg over a meter

40Nm = 4Kg over a meter, and when it starts to get harder your at the torque.

this is not advised but good if you dont have a torque wrench!

or get yourself down to argos i picked up a torque wrench for £20 FTW

[stainesy]

Also what the hell does angle tighten mean?

[dansmk3]

angle is as it says mate.

say you put the socket on and as you look at it it is poiting at 12o'clock, if you angle tighten 90degs then it will be pointing at 3o'clock

does that help? sounds right in my head lol

[danny_p]

it's where you turn the nut / bolt X degrees  

eg you may see on a cyl head   40NM   + 90deg + 90 deg

that means torque with a torque wrench to 40 newtom meters, then with a BAR turn it another 1/4 of a turn then another 1/4 of a turn     ( it's a way of putting a bolt under a set tension or strech as sometimes it may require diffrent quantites of torque  but a turn is allways a set distance due to the threads

[AudiA8Quattro]

Buy a torque wrench, don't do the hub nut without it.