My OEM hitch turned into a torque wrench calibration station!
I have wanted a large torque wrench for a while for torquing the front axle nuts on BMW's, but couldn't justify one for basically one application. However, we just got a bigger travel trailer requiring an Equal-i-zerŪ weight distributing hitch. The ball needs torqued to 420 ft. lbs. and the head is torqued to the shank at 320 ft. lbs resulting in my justification to buy a big, honkin' 3/4" drive 100-600 ft. lbs. torque wrench. I feel so MANLY walking around with that thing!
Since I bought an older, used wrench on Ebay, it was the perfect time to set up a calibration station to set the "new" wrench along with my older 1/2" and 3/8" drive wrenches. Worked super slick, and interestingly, my 50ish y.o. Snap-On dial-type wrenches were still pretty close. In fact, my 1/2" drive didn't need any adjustment at all.
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