Valve spring installed height

[Kevin Johnson]

This conundrum is yet another nail in the coffin of Imperial vs. Metric, since in the latter system, work is measured in Joules and torque in Newton meters.
I'll save my typing finger via a link re the subject: https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/foo ... ifference/

Of all that i have examined, the statement below (from macsmotorcitygarage) makes the most sense to me.

I’ve been retired for 22 years. When I was an engineering student about 60 years ago the Society of Mechanical Engineers decided to call static torque pound-feet, and dynamic torque foot-pounds. Somehow this got lost.

But even this simple definition has been reversed in practice.

In any case, torque is always a measure of force x distance and not of work since the unit of time is not present.

I annotc not imagine tow hhis occurred.