TORQUE WRENCH ADVICE NEEDED.

[accentstencil]

I'm about to change the knock sensors on my LS1 in the next few days but I am going to have a problem with torque settings for the intake manifold.
The settings are: 1st stage 5nm
2nd stage 10nm.
I have a torque wrench and a digital torque adapter that I just bought a couple of weeks ago.
The torque wrench's lowest setting is 10 ft lbs (13.55nm) and the digital torque adapter's lowest setting is 40nm.
Neither of these are going to give me 5nm and 10nm and I really don't want to buy a small torque wrench because after a bit of a search on the net they are extremely expensive.
I'm sure other people have had this problem, how did you get around it? By feel? I've been using the "fee"l method most of my long life and it seems to have worked fine.
I know that 5 and 10 nm is not much so I wouldn't be going ape on it.

 

[losh1971]

What do you call exi? IIRC Teng sell inch pound wrenches for under 150 bucks.

 

[accentstencil]

What do you call exi? IIRC Teng sell inch pound wrenches for under 150 bucks.

That's a bit more than I want to spend to do one job.
I reckon I've spent around $4,000 on my car in the last 4-6 weeks and I'm getting low on money.

 

[losh1971]

Wholll, yeah that's understandable.

 

[accentstencil]

I decided to play it safe and ordered a 1/4" torque wrench with settings 5-25nm.

 

[Tonner Matt]

I decided to play it safe and ordered a 1/4" torque wrench with settings 5-25nm.

Good call
Now you've ordered it, you'll be surprised how often you'll use it

 

[accentstencil]

Good call
Now you've ordered it, you'll be surprised how often you'll use it

Considering the amount of work I do on my car, I'm sure it will come in handy.

 

[Pollushon]

A decent bicycle torque wrench set will do you well for these applications sub $50 but sounds like you're sorted.

 

[accentstencil]

A decent bicycle torque wrench set will do you well for these applications sub $50 but sounds like you're sorted.

Yes, that's what I ended up deciding on since I already have two larger torque wrenches.

 

[greenacc]

Sounds like a fair idea, which brands are worth getting?