[Shotimes] New tool, was lug nut torque

[Paul Nimz]

Harbor Freight has these I have seen.  Personally and this is only my
experience over the last 30  years, I have better luck without the torque
wrench.  And I tighten the lug nuts to ~ 125 lb/ft by hand.  Whenever I use
the torque wrench and set it to 100 lb/ft, I always have to go back after a
bit of driving and re-tighten.  This summer at Summit Point where the nuts
were tightened by someone else with a torque wrench I had 3 nuts on one
wheel almost come off.  When I had tighten to my calibrated arm at 125 lb/ft
they never need re-tightening or become loose.

I'll save my torque wrench for head bolts and such.  I have not ever warped
a rotor either over the last 30 years.

Paul Nimz
'97 TR SHO
'93 EG mtx SHO


----- Original Message -----
From: <BJamesjr@aol.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] New tool, was lug nut torque


> > I need to know what the torque should be for the lug nuts.
>
> When in my dad's shop a week ago, he was about to hand me an air impact
> wrench to tighten some lug nuts.  I told him that I would rather use a
torque
> wrench, then he told me that he had some special extensions that would
limit
> torque.  I didn't understand completely until I looked at them.  They are
> 1/2" drive extensions, about 10" long, and come in a set of at least 4
> different ones, each one color coded for a specific torque range.  The
lower
> torque ones have smaller diameter shafts.  Apparently what they do is
offer
> less resistance for the impact wrench and thus transfer less of the impact
> through the extension into the nut.  I tried them and they work that way.
> You can impact a nut repeatedly and the extension just flexes and soaks up
> the impact.
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