Thanks for the response.

Originally Posted by Mr Davis
1) to be honest, I have never used a torque wrench for this, always just did it by feel, taking the centre bolt to a pressure that felt right to me, about 3/4 what i would a wheel bolt on my car.

That's what I ended up doing.


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i use cotton based rope in the cylinder, supported by a bar in the hole on the side of a powertorque boss.

I tried the rope in the cylinder trick to no avail. Maybe I didn't use enough rope. The boss on my mower does not have a hole - at least, I cannot find one.


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Often they wont move by hand, thats ok, they will give if they need to.

Are you saying that you do use a torque wrench for the blade nuts?

Thanks
Ken