Not for everyone. If it did, we wouldn't have the relatively frequent posts from people who say, "My belt is squealing, what do I do?" and then find out they were running it too loose because they guessed at the tension by twisting the belt.

 

Your right, that method works when you have experience working on your vehicle. Your also right, a lot of folks come here and make posts that have used the non-gauge method and are having problems, because they lacked the experience to properly apply the method. Which just adds validity to our method about using a tiny 15 dollar machine to tell you your are right. Cheers.

 

I agree and understand the argument completely. All I'm saying is some of the things needing done on these are not that complicated. It would be like telling someone they need to go and buy a torque wrench and keep it in their car because someday they might have a flat tire and should properly torque the lugnuts. At some point just plain old common sense can prevent you from actually needing to do this. Know what I mean?