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Setting the correct torque.

Sparkingchip
Not the best of days at work.

https://jalopnik.com/a-single-factory-worker-forced-subaru-into-a-recall-1846184500
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    Sparkingchip:

    Not the best of days at work.

    https://jalopnik.com/a-single-factory-worker-forced-subaru-into-a-recall-1846184500


    Shoodausedthreadlokker.


    Z.


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    So the worker was there a week before the mistake was noticed. Why wasn't it picked up on the first minute/hour/day or even during induction? Unless the intention was sabotage I find it very difficult to believe the person had sole responsibility for the error, others must share the blame.

    Loose torque costs jobs apparently.
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    It is very unusual that any bolt torques are set by a torque wrench in a modern factory. It is simply too unreliable. Most use automated torque devices, which register the torques set each time they operate. Most strange. You can see this on some of the videos on Youtube, very interesting.
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    The way I read it, it was how he operated the tool (rather than the setting) that was the issue.


    Still, at least they had enough records in place to identify the vehicles that were affected so that effective, corrective action could be put in place within a relatively short time.
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    Doubtless this thread will be shifted in the morning. What impresses me is that the factory spotted the error and did so pretty promptly.
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    I assume they eventually found one that  was miles off, and either rattling loose or thread stripped.

    On a less expensive car, I'd expect the automated scream and cliccky sound of  a self torquing machine. Funny but very true Dave's point  that hand building is less reliable.

    Mike.

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    When I stayed in South Africa, a foreman who worked for me bought a new S.A. built Ford camper van; the first time that he had occasion to change a wheel, It couldn't be removed because it was too tight. It had to be taken to a garage for stripping the axle. How do you prove it was that way out of the box?, (the nuts on other wheels were OK). ?


    Jaymack
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    automated scream and cliccky sound of  a self torquing machine


    Don't remind me! I had a dental implant last week and such a weird experience feeling the rotation and clicking when the titanium was deemed secure in the bone,,,,,,,,,,, around 60N/cm apparently!


    Regards


    BOD
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    When we were first being told to buy and use torque screwdrivers there was a firm selling labels to put on consumer units to state the terminals had all been secured to the correct torque, that idea didn't catch on.

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