Do you torque all your fasteners?

[f6john]

[John Schmidt]

Had to send that to my son-in-law. I was mounting the front calipers on his I/S using a ratchet wrench and on both mounting bolts on each side I reached a point where I said "that feels about right." I believe it's 22 ft. lbs. He got out the torque wrench and checked me....and was surprised it was right on the mark. He'll get a chuckle out of the picture. 

[msb]

lol...that's a good one
I've traditionally been a notorious Over-Tightener, so yes now that I'm doing more and more of my own work on my bikes I use a torque wrench. Better safe than sorry, especially on critical components or where broken bolts can cause a real PITA, like headers, etc.

[f6john]

I generally fart @ 120ft lbs

[John Schmidt]

I generally fart @ 120ft lbs

Strange....I've never needed a torque wrench for that. Geez....learn something new every day. 

[Gryphon Rider]

If when it fails or falls out it will wreck my day, I use a torque wrench.  If it's grade 8.8 or higher, there's a likelihood that it's a critical bolt, so should probably be torqued to spec.  The bigger it is, the less likely my calibrated elbow will be accurate.

When I was tightening the nut on a hitch ball, my torque wrench had me put way more torque on it than I would have by feel.

[Chrisj CMA]

I use my torque wrench on the axle nuts and final drive nuts. That’s really about it. If I ever had to get into the motor. Definitely torque wrench on everything to spec.  

Now saying that understand I have been wrenching on bikes for over 40 years and I have a pretty good feel for the torque setting. And I can tell by the size and function of the fastener about how tight it needs to be pretty close to the specs.

[Jess from VA]

Do you torque all your fasteners?

Only occasionally in the privacy of my own home.

Thanks for asking. 

[Patrick]

At the right times. Over 5 decades of doing this work, mostly full time, has calibrated my elbow fairly well.

[cookiedough]

on some parts say 80 ft lbs. of torque I tried tightening to that.  Unless my turn knob torque wrench I got at Harbor Freight is off,  I could not get it to torque all the way up to 80 unless I was on steroids.  I must be weak,  anyone else have issues torquing to 80 or so not having enough muscles on a regular torque wrench?

[Chrisj CMA]

on some parts say 80 ft lbs. of torque I tried tightening to that.  Unless my turn knob torque wrench I got at Harbor Freight is off,  I could not get it to torque all the way up to 80 unless I was on steroids.  I must be weak,  anyone else have issues torquing to 80 or so not having enough muscles on a regular torque wrench?

No problem. I have an older bar type. I have the opposite situation. I get to 80 on the rear axle and it seemed too easy. So I usually go to 85 or so. 72,000 miles on the current rear end and it’s still like new so it must be right enough

[RP#62]

It depends.  For cosmetic items, probably not.  If the consequence of the fastener backing out is catastrophic, probably so.  If there's a good chance I could over-torque it and wipe out the threads, probably so.

-RP