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Delivery McGee posted:I do own a torque wrench -- one of those cheap clicky ones, probably from Harbor Freight. I've checked a couple of things after estimating the torque by hand, and they were decently close. If it's something important like head bolts, I use the torque wrench, but most everything else I just tighten until it feels right. This is how I do everything on my cars as well. It wouldn't work however without quite a few years of loving things up first.
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Uthor posted:You just make sure they're facing the correct way, which doesn't sound too difficult. I just bought $30 worth of Nordlock washers because of this video. And because today I had a turbo downpipe nut+stud come out of my turbo housing AGAIN and cause a huge leak. I've never had nuts and bolts fall out of anything as much as they like to free themselves from the turbo and downpipe.
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I just bought a house with a 4 car garage (woohoo) and it's empty so I'm trying to set it up.. I need a workbench and this came up on craigslist, for $150  "Steel work bench 6ft x 3ft' " Dude says it's ~200 lbs and the same one you see in all machine shops and auto places. It looks good to me, and I offered $120 but he wouldn't budge and said he should've asked for $175...  He said they are $375 new which I find hard to believe but whatever. It's a bit out of my way to pick it up so my question is, is this worth $150? Where can I get workbenches at good deals anyway? I've never had to outfit a garage before. I checked costco but they didn't have anything.
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It actually seems much heavier duty that what I've always been used to, and if I bolt it to the floor I dont think hammering on a vice would cause many issues. I have some welding skillz so I think I could reinforce it if necessary and that would be easier than building a whole new one from scratch. I guess my main question was the price
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If I knew the first thing about woodworking, I probably would make a bench, but alas I do not  My father is a drat genius at it but I never wanted to learn when I was younger and now he's 1500 miles away.I think I'll probably pick up this metal one for $150 and hope it works out. Somewhat Heroic posted:Hey tool thread, I'm looking for an EZ Out, preferably the ones made of adamantium that I've seen used in the other threads. It's to remove some ~12mm bolts that the head broke off that holds the plastic shroud over my intercooler. The thing just snapped off with no warning that the bolt was tight. A link to amazon or again, if a HF unit would suffice id be okay with that. I've never had an EZ out actually work. They either break off inside, or I chicken out because it's about to snap and I just drill the hole out and retap one size larger. I've heard reverse drill bits are a good thing to try though.
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