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Ah, you need to adjust the chain BEFORE TIGHTENING THE AXLE....
Right - now that the axle nuts loosened up I can adjust, then retighten.
Ah, you need to adjust the chain BEFORE TIGHTENING THE AXLE....
It's Left/Right switch-style ratchet torque wrench (250 ft/lb max $100), so I assume it can be used both directions...?
The chain only had ~1" of play on the centerstand after shop replaced rear tire, quite noisy at speed (on local roads can be louder then exhaust almost). Hopefully this helps, although before the tire was replaced I spent days trying to adjust tension and align tires and it was still way noisier than it was a few months ago.
How ever rare there are times you may need to apply torque in the opposite direction. The only one on my mind right now is Old Mopars that had the lugnuts directional to the sides. and there are engine pulleys that are left hand thread.
I wasn't bragging, just been collecting tools for literally decades(since I was 15, 53 now). I don't like getting stuck in the middle of a job and missing a special puller/wrench,etc. I've cut up wrenches, rewelded them to make then fit inside a rotor, as a holder, while I removed the crankshaft/rotor nut from my old KLR, etc..
Anyway, a decent torque wrench is under $100 new at Sears, HD, Lowes, etc...
I know I've encountered CCW bolts/nuts, especially on crankshafts of small engines, some MC engines, but seriously don't EVER remember using a torque wrench on a CCW thread, their that rare.
As for a pully assembly with CCW threads, I seriously doubt I'd use a torque wrench on that unless it was something special.
Yep a few years in full time Mechanic work and I don't pull out the torque wrench unless the valve cover is off. I've never used one CCW, and on the lugnuts I don't have specific car but I've heard several times that Chrysler products in the 60's and 70's did, like Chargers and Road Runners