That fancy digital torque wrench I thought was a gimmick? Actually saved my bacon on a Ford 6.7 job

I picked up a used Snap-on digital torque wrench at a pawn shop in Tulsa about 6 months ago for $80... figured it would just be a toy. But last week I was doing head bolts on a Powerstroke and the manual says to torque them in 3 stages with a specific angle at the end. My old beam style wrench just could not handle that precision. The digital one beeped at exactly 90 ft-lbs then I switched to the angle mode... no guessing, no eyeballing the dial. I checked it against my click-style after and it was dead on. I still hate how finicky the batteries are on these things though. Has anyone else had the battery drain issue if you leave it in the case too long?

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hall.joel3d ago

Yeah the battery thing is annoying. I just pull it out of the case if I know I won't use it for a while.

ryan_shah383d ago

Yeah that makes sense @hall.joel, I do the same thing with my old laptop battery too.

vera_johnson91d ago

Doesn't pulling it out all the time wear down the connectors or the battery contacts though? I've always just left mine in and it seems fine.