[guss,guss]

OK gearheads. which is prefered, the click type or the old standard flex?
 i don't know if i trust the click kind. i have looked and its hard to find one that goes down 5lbs. anyway.
 thanks.

[Ice]

 In my shed we use flex beam torque wrenches for cylinder studs, small low torque fasteners and fasteners screwing into aluminum and micrometer click torque wrenches for things like chassis bolts and studs screwing into iron or steel.

 Ebay is where I found the old school higher quality American and European made torque wrenches gifted to my sons

 

[Arizoni]

I like the click style.

The bending flex type are often difficult to read accurately because of the distance between the pointer and the scale.  If my line of sight is just a little bit off of looking directly at the scale, my reading will be wrong.

As for really low torque values (like the filter cover and oil pump inlet screen cover bolts need), a small 1/4" drive click torque wrench is available and it's quite accurate (even for the cheap ones at Harbor Freight).
  For just a few dollars a adapter can be bought that will allow the little 1/4" drive wrenches to drive a 3/8" drive socket.
That's handy if most of your sockets are like mine, 3/8" drive.

[pknopp]

 I use the click type at work and it's what I'm used to. So that is that. LOL

[Hondo]

I personally use a flex type for big jobs (over 200 foot lbs), I also have click type in 1/2", 3/8", and a quarter inch that reads inch lbs.  (12 inch lbs = 1 foot lb)

[AgentX]

Click for my 3/8 and 1/2, dial for my 1/4" in inch-lbs.

Had a flexible beam once, which I liked for bicycles, but find it harder to use on motorcycles due to tight quarters sometimes.  You have to get a good vantage on the thing to ensure you're reading it correctly...

[ace.cafe]

I have click type 3/8" drive,  and beam type 1/4" drive.