Hey,

I just put my K40 lug nuts on, and I put them on very tight, probably too tight. I just don't want to mess up my wheels, or the lug nuts, so I wanted to know if somone could post what I should torque the lugs down too.

Thanks,

Tom

 

your lugs are never too tight doing it manually. one of my lugs fell off and the others were loose as can be and i did them tight. it wont hurt or damage anything.

 

Here ya go

 

FYI... when tire shops mount wheels they always say... bring it by in a week and we will retighten.... So just retighten them a couple times and you have nothing to worry about...

 

The torque spec is 80 ft./lbs. Don't try to torque it way more than that so it stays on better, it doesn't work that way. FWIW, the standard in the transportation industry (at least where I work) is to retorque a wheel back to spec after it's been driven 100 miles.

 

Thats not true with the K40's because they are smaller than the OEM lugs, and one of my wheel locks started to work its way into the actual wheel!

 

i didnt retighten them. drove around for like 3 weeks. there was a noise coming from the wheels and i was like wtf is that noice. good thing one of my friends saw that i had a missing lug so i went brought it home to take them all off and put on the oem ones. one of the wheels could have flew off, whewwwwwww.

 

Severely overtorquing a wheel is bad business. It damages the wheel, the nut, but most of all the stud. If you hit something hard (i.e a pot hole, a curb, road debris) with severely orvertorqued lug nuts, you can snap the studs right off. This is particularly true with aftermarket long studs that are used with spacers. I've dealt with it. Not pretty.

Torque to specs. Retorque in about 3 days or 100 miles. Check after about a week to see that eveything is fine. Done.

 

you should put the oem ones back on before you have a bigger problem

 

I'm in the "process" of doing this now, and let me tell you this is turning into a HUGE pain in the azz. I can't belive I'm having so much trouble with these. I will make a thread afer I figure out this whole mess.

 

^^Really? Whats the deal? Mine were a piece of cake. Did you cross thread or something?

 

For some reason, the locking lugs decided to start to wear there way into thw wheels. As in the lug nut is too small, and the hole on the wheel is too large; so they started to wear down the hole. There are metal shavings from where they wore into the wheels, and they are on there now and I have to bang them out from the oposite side of the wheel.

I did not over torque them because the torque wrench is not snapping when I losen them, and the non-locking lugs are coming off with ease. The locking ones are the only ones giving me the problem.