I did buy two new crush washers and thought about just doing this by hand. I also bought a 10 to 150 ft/lbs 1/2" drive torque wrench. This thing looks like I'm going to work on a field tractor...DAMN!!! ;)

I think I'll just tighten till the crush washers crush and call it a day.

P.S. if anyone is interested the conversion from Newton-Meters to Foot-Pounds is 0.7375621493

Thanks again all! :)
Josh in VT

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