Friends

by "CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
Published 01/20/2017 at 18:18

Tags: gto ; pontiac ; matco ; t56
STARS: 13

You know you make those work friends where you both get it and enjoy working with each other and will help each other out? Well there is one of the technicians who is buddy buddy with me. When he comes in to get parts quoted or needs a hand looking stuff up I am always happy to help him. Very nice guy. So cause I help him out, he helps me out when I need a tool at work. I mean I have my travel tool box, but it doesn’t nearly have everything. So like when I was putting my tranny together, I needed to torque the front cover, bellhousing, and clutch actuator cylinder back down. So I went out to the shop to ask to borrow one of his. He asks if I am feeling special. I say sure and he opens up a drawer with multiple boxes with torque wrenches and pulls out a Matco one. Tells me he never lets anyone in the shop borrow it, cause honestly they should have their own tools and it cost him $ 600 .

Dudes! This tool is so cool. You have multiple units, will do torque angle, haptic feedback when you hit the target, and leds on each side (those white bars) to indicate when you are getting close without having to read the screen as seen here.

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So thanks to him my tranny is all buttoned up and ready to be installed in my car Monday!! I can’t wait.

Replies (8)

"feather-throttle-not-hair" (feather-throttle-not-hair)
01/20/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 1

You know what? I needed this right now. Yeah people being good to each other!

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
01/20/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 0

Glad to help you :)

"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
01/20/2017 at 18:44, STARS: 3

“I want a digital Matco torque wrench, with a compass on the stock and this thing which tells time.”

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
01/20/2017 at 18:48, STARS: 1

Yeah... I want it. I just wouldn’t use it enough to justify that kind of money.

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
01/20/2017 at 19:06, STARS: 1

I like how the tool lets you know when you’re almost at your torque setting. That’s cool!

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
01/20/2017 at 19:15, STARS: 1

Me too. It is also cool that when you lift off it tells you where you stopped. Like I was aiming for 37 and it tells me when to stop, I lift off and that little extra happens so it tells me I ended at 37.4

"wkiernan" (wkiernan)
01/20/2017 at 19:17, STARS: 2

Well, go find the software guy. Tell him he needs to write firmware for a digital wrench.

Whatcha say there? Lot of noise in here.

I said, he needs to write the software for a digital wrench.

Uh, OK boss, I’ll tell him.

[later]

You get it done?

Yeah, but I can’t believe I’m actually writing this! I haven’t written code for one of these since I was a sophomore taking CS 101. Well, here it is.

How does it work?

Well, you set the time here with this button, you set the alarm with this other button.

How do you set the target foot-pounds?

Say what?

Well, it’s supposed to tell you when you’ve reached the desired torque.

Say what?

How else is a digital wrench supposed to work?

A digital what?

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
01/20/2017 at 20:22, STARS: 0

Huh?