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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
There are numerous sources on the internet for home calibration of torque wrenches to look to for guidance. But honestly, it's a car you're working on, not spacecraft. Outside of torquing engine internals and cylinderheads, the precision of your torque wrench is pretty much immaterial.
If you are torquing down wheel bolts to 88 pound-foot using a click type wrench, if it is off by a few percent it is not critical.
Common use of TQ wrench for yard-monkey DIY'ers is for spark plugs. There you should only use a 3/8ths-drive beam-style torque wrench.
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I agree.
It's not a Mars lander you are putting together and the wrench is to make sure you are in the ballpark and don't go He-Man on the little bolts that don't need to know you just benched a personal record.
