torquing main bearing caps

From the reading I've done so far, I get the idea that the torque angle method is more specific to the fasteners being used than it is to the engine manufacturer. For example, if one were using brand new fasteners of a type that were meant to be torqued to yield, then it should make no difference at all to the engine. I could be wrong, but I'll continue to research the matter.

Thanks again for the info! It's what I was looking for when I made my original post.

 

Detroit 12.7
347-391 lb.ft

That's a 44 ft. lb. spread.

It is not precise, is it? Why don't you take Detroit to task on the matter? They might listen to you. Why are you wasting your time on me? I already know what a torque wrench is.

What kind of odds might we wager that a torque to yield bolt would end up somewhere within that 44 ft. lb. spread?

It would take no more than seconds to torque down the main bearing cap. Using the torque to yield method, you could torque down the main bearing caps on about fifty engines in one morning, and the work would be more precise.

Maybe Detroit doesn't change their manuals because they're taking campaign donations from Harbor Freight?

Like ELDs--Do you know what an ELD is? Maybe congressmen accepted campaign donations from ELD manufacturers?

Who's paying you to act like a clown? I hope they ain't paying you too much.

 

Does it measure angle?

'Scuse me... I see from your post that it does.

Now here's what you do, funny man. Get on one of them engines that you rebuild thousands of, and with brand new torque to yield bolts, you torque about a dozen of them to Detroit specs, and record the angle for me.

Thanks.