If you dont trust your mechanics hands and you fear stripping bolts as you tighten them or maybe you fear they are too loose after you are done.
Well there is a good way to learn to developp your mechanics hand without any fear of messing up your prized motorcycle.
What you do is you bring your tools and a torque wrench also to a "u-pull it" type junkyard of your choice. Then you practice on any car you like.
I encourage you to overtighten and strip bolts on purpose so you will see what it feels like.
Also bring the torque spec sheets from a commonly seen car you know will be there and test your hands using the toque wrench only to verify if you went too far or not enough.
My last tip is this one. Any small bolt head that is 8mm or 10mm, do not tighten them using the end of the handle of a ratchet. Grab the ratchet at or near the head(the clickety part). You greately reduce the risk of stripping out a small fastener this way.
Never forget that the longer a wrench or a ratchet is, the same effort you apply on this longer wrench translates to more torque. Torque is no the same thing as "effort".
For example in my car I carry a very long(30 inch) breaker bar for lug nuts. When I tighten the nuts, I grab the bar not at the end, I grab it at the halfway point so I can "feel" the torque better and not overtighten the lug nuts.
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