noseweight guage

[Dustydog]

Amen B)

 

[Thingy]

Lets not go there. Its wenches loading the caravan with pointless items which got us into this state in the first place.

 

[KeefySher]

Who wants to start a topic on torque wrench's ?? 😗 😗 😗

Would that be calibrated and certificated torque wrenches as used in safety critical applications; or the ones found in the dark recesses of a shed that someone said you needed to torque your wheel nuts every time you look at your caravan?? 😛 😛 😛

 

[Dustydog]

Who wants to start a topic on torque wrench's ?? 😗 😗 😗

Would that be calibrated and certificated torque wrenches as used in safety critical applications; or the ones found in the dark recesses of a shed that someone said you needed to torque your wheel nuts every time you look at your caravan?? 😛 😛 😛

Call me a saddo but having lost a car wheel a few years ago I check the car and caravan wheel bolt torques at the start of each tour. The torque wrench lives in the boot.

 

[DaveA1]

Who wants to start a topic on torque wrench's ?? 😗 😗 😗

Would that be calibrated and certificated torque wrenches as used in safety critical applications; or the ones found in the dark recesses of a shed that someone said you needed to torque your wheel nuts every time you look at your caravan?? 😛 😛 😛

Call me a saddo but having lost a car wheel a few years ago I check the car and caravan wheel bolt torques at the start of each tour. The torque wrench lives in the boot.[/quote]

Same here, will check van wheel nuts when I leave home/site, each time.

 

[Gafferbill]

........and do you know how DSA examiners test the tightness of wheel nuts?
They tap them with a light hammer and listen to the sound.........no calibrated measuring devices, no working to an accuracy of four decimal places.

"Old habits die hard" ......perhaps some one should tell em 😗

 

[Hutch]

I ahve five torque wrenches two Snap on and three Draper, the two Snap on ones which I used at work and were always compaired during use to a calibrated Acratorque tester and never had to be readjusted in 10 years. The others I have used at home for general car mechanics, and on checking them against my Snap on ones are withing a foot pound and also an inch pound.
I do not check my wheel Torques every trip but usally about every two months.
I wonder how many drivers Never check their car wheel bolt torques, so why should Caravanners check the vans bolts. ?