Wheel Studs Broke - Could have been Horendous

[jeffstevens763@g]

Originally Posted by Dry suit diver

Only levels of tightness needed are

FT finger tight
NU nipped up
WUH whanged up hard

There is of course EFT extremely flipping tight . Usually done by the knuckle dragger with no mechanical sympathy [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

That'll do for me always done that way DSD

[beamishken]

Originally Posted by Dry suit diver

Only levels of tightness needed are

FT finger tight
NU nipped up
WUH whanged up hard

There is of course EFT extremely flipping tight . Usually done by the knuckle dragger with no mechanical sympathy [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

Yep that system worked for me for 30 years in the motor trade!

Only time I ever had a wheel come loose was shortly after buying my first good quality torque wrench aged 16 , I torqued the wheels to spec on my uncles car , 50 miles later pulled over due to a noise to find both front wheels I'd torqued to spec were loose.

That was the last time I torqued wheel nuts!

Never snapped a set of wheel studs or stripped any nuts and routinely greased threads and always overtightened wheels.

Standard wheel tightening procedure in my garage was run the nuts up with the windy gun to seat the wheels drop the ramp on the floor and check tightness with a 18" power bar.

Wheel nut torque specs are always on the low side imho.

[Fred.]

Originally Posted by Poly

Probably easier to go into your User CP and add to the Ignore List than repeatedly telling him.

Surely that depends if you have HPD or not.......

[cjj216]

Originally Posted by beamishken

Yep that system worked for me for 30 years in the motor trade!

Only time I ever had a wheel come loose was shortly after buying my first good quality torque wrench aged 16 , I torqued the wheels to spec on my uncles car , 50 miles later pulled over due to a noise to find both front wheels I'd torqued to spec were loose.

That was the last time I torqued wheel nuts!

Never snapped a set of wheel studs or stripped any nuts and routinely greased threads and always overtightened wheels.

Standard wheel tightening procedure in my garage was run the nuts up with the windy gun to seat the wheels drop the ramp on the floor and check tightness with a 18" power bar.

Wheel nut torque specs are always on the low side imho.

There’s one to remember.
Only nip them up in opposite order on the jack.
Then drop on to floor and give a final good tighten by hand, in opposite order, with an extendable 18” wrench.

[Dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by beamishken

Yep that system worked for me for 30 years in the motor trade!

Only time I ever had a wheel come loose was shortly after buying my first good quality torque wrench aged 16 , I torqued the wheels to spec on my uncles car , 50 miles later pulled over due to a noise to find both front wheels I'd torqued to spec were loose.

That was the last time I torqued wheel nuts!

Never snapped a set of wheel studs or stripped any nuts and routinely greased threads and always overtightened wheels.

Standard wheel tightening procedure in my garage was run the nuts up with the windy gun to seat the wheels drop the ramp on the floor and check tightness with a 18" power bar.

Wheel nut torque specs are always on the low side imho.

Strangely it’s the material the bolt presses against determines the torque setting.

We use quite a high spec bolt with a stupid high torque rating in the electrical panels we install in work ( 33kV switchgear) but the Torque setting for the bolts is hellishly low due to the softness of the copper.

Anyway it’s Saturday and I am not on the water and now talking shop. That’s not right !!