Torquing a cylinder down need advice

[alex2445]

I have a 1978 Suzuki rm100 dirt bike engine. To torque it down I need to use a crowfoot to get in there , but the crowfoot can't get in there with the torque wrench, so I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to do this. The reason I can't get it in is because of how the fins are

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

Like this but smaller

 

[ncp91cb350]

I know Matco, Mac, and Snap-on all make long crowfoot wrenches.

 

[goldy]

Just throwing this in there...if you need to use this sort of adapter on your torque wrench, it will increase the effective length of the torque wrench...to make sure you don't overtorque the nuts, you must do a little math and reduce the setting on the torque wrench accordingly.

Another way around this is to mark the nuts, torque the ones you can get at, check how much they have moved and then turn the ones you can't get the torque wrench on by the same amount.

Don't overthink this, it's only the cylinder flange nuts...really, if you tighten them up with just an open end wrench and a little common sense, that's good enough.

 

[Tune-A-Fish]

I just use the torque meeter god gave me on these little motors, just get a "feel" for the setting with the tool on a few and wing it man, it aint no formula 1 motor.

 

[goldy]

^Ditto^

 

[crazypj]

What you really need is a 'box end' torque adapter
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/8961702965614224584?q=Metric+Torque+adapter&channel=fs&bav=on.2,or.&biw=1680&bih=953&tch=1&ech=1&psi=_zg6VdG5BIebNrCogMAH.1429879041143.3&prds=paur:ClkAsKraX7ZoUE_YEQfTmWoFZvU1CU3TfP5Kgy4J_F3tvQUJVOwtEcRYW3ELTnL6ZxMmi5MjsR53xmITjixjo7zwgLGaw5JZDkJX03wk0zxNIZgOXe-R3_GBqBIZAFPVH71tuaVBM_ZdLCO7vKzj5EaI9jj7hw&ved=0CC8Qpis&ei=_zg6VYnEOYepgwT91YGwBw
The Motion Pro isn't too bad at $14