Tired of guys torquing head bolts by feel in the shop

Watched a guy in Denver snap a 14mm bolt on a 6.7 Powerstroke because he skipped the torque wrench and called it 'good enough', so has anyone else had to redo a whole head gasket job because someone else refused to use specs?

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williams.kim1mo ago

How did this guy even keep a straight face when the bolt snapped? I had almost the same thing happen on a 6.0 where the last guy "guessed" the head bolts and two of them let go after about 500 miles. The customer brought it back to me and I had to pull the cab and redo the whole job on my own dime in time, which was a hard lesson. After that I started writing my own torque steps on tape and sticking it right on the valve cover before I touch a thing, and I make the young guys sign off on each pass. You can do everything right and still get burned by one dude who won't grab a wrench, so now I check the bolts myself before the heads even go on. It costs me maybe ten extra minutes and it has saved me two full tear downs since then, which is cheap when you do the math.

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