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David G

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I am changing the rear brakes on wife's van, right wheel took my 3/4 impact to get loose.

Guess the shop that rotated tires got over zealous.
 
I had new tires put on my GMC HD and told tire shop not to tighten to over 100 Ft pounds and I would hand torque to the spec. of 140 ft. as soon as I got the short drive home. I had to go to 175 ft pounds to get one to come loose and all were just short of that! A bare on an old man doing 32 of them but I want to be able to get loose on road if need be.
 
The shop I go to have told me by law they now have to use a correct torque setting and have them checked and then double check by a 2nd person. One of those shop is Walmart by the way and the other that told me is Big O
 
they are to torque the nuts using a TORQUE wrench. then on your bill they write to "retorque after 100 km." at least that's the way it is here. aluminum rims require closer attention due to possibility of nuts loosening .
 
That's not so good! A couple of years ago I had our Subaru done at the dealer in Phoenix, I checked them after a while and one nut on each wheel was loose. I will never go back there again! I always put a little anti-seize on them too, there are mixed opinions about that, but it works for me.
 
probably put impact on and drive to limit and then for show, put torque wrench on and ,"yep, it clicked right on 140#".
 
I had to jump on the lug wrench to loosen the lugnuts,when my granddaughter called for help on her friends flat tire.by-the-way,check the spare for air BEFORE you install it!!
 
Most of them seem to do that. I've had them strip the threads on the studs before. The tire shop I'm using now just snugs the nuts up with the impact and then they use a torque wrench to tighten them.
 
Hello David G,

Hope its drum brakes. Disk rotors are not so tollerant to over torquing,

Guido.
 
The last time I got tires for Sam's, they would over tighten lugs and stripped the threads.

I because a Tire Barn customer for life because they hand torque.

David, find a place that hand torques.
George
 
(quoted from post at 21:09:48 03/21/20) I feel your pain.this is why i always snug up lug nuts with impact,then torque or tighten by hand all around.

Rock
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ust snug them up?? Funny! How is snug defined with a 200 ft lb impact?
 
I had to ask for them to use a torque wrench on mine. They used a torque stick. Never heard of one until that day. Then I read up on torque sticks. Won?t ever let?s them use one on my vehicles again. Most of the time I check the torque myself.
 
I had some tire work done at a shop in town, I forget why now but I tried to remove one of the wheels that weekend and could not with a 24 inch breaker bar. The tire shop eventually replaced all 20 studs on a 85 Toronado (metric).
 
My impact has a toque knob on it- settings from 1 to 4.

I use 4 to remove lug nuts.

I use 2 to re-install.

It seems to torque to about 80 ftlbs. with light grease on the threads on setting number 2. Then follow with hand torque wrench and tires on the ground.

My torque wrench has not been tested/calibrated in the 25+years I've owned it, so who knows where they really are?
 
(quoted from post at 18:09:48 03/21/20) I feel your pain.this is why i always snug up lug nuts with impact,then torque or tighten by hand all around.

Rock
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Rock, don't worry about it, I sure wouldn't. I'll bet that until twenty years ago a torque wrench virtually never got used on lug nuts. Now, since there have been instructions for 15 years to re-torque after 100 miles it is a bandwagon that any one can jump on even if they don't know what a torque wrench even looks like. Just the fact that you are not relying on your impact wrench shows that you are doing a better job than 80% of the shops.
 
Several times I have changed wheels at home and found the nuts were so tight that I was thankful that I didn?t have a flat along the road and didn?t have any tools to get it off. Also trying to get the spare tire off from those winch mechanisms underneath that get rusted tight.
 
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