No smarter than a torque wrench....

Haven't ordered the bolts and misc. parts to reinstall the controls arms yet, but i hope to get that accomplished this weekend.  My lack of planning is really killing my schedule.  

On a separate note I found out this morning that I'm not smarter than a torque wrench.  Let me explain.  I bought a torque wrench from Orielly's and while removing the painters tape from my control arms I decided that I should put in my upper control arm ball joint.  Easy enough, right?  Wrong...  The part went in just like planned but I noticed that the bolts had a specific torque spec on them which I found in the box. So i pulled out my new torque wrench, adjusted the handle to 11 ft-lbs and torqued away.....and away....and away....until I tighten a bolt to failure.  Yup,  pulled the bolt apart.  

As you can imagine this left me more frustrated about not being able to figure out the torque wrench as opposed to breaking the bolt. I'm positive that i set the wrench correctly although now i'm wondering if, since the control arm wasn't installed, I used the wrong application of force which makes the wrench not give way at the set point.

I don't know.....

C