[DeTomaso] WHAT IS THE TORQUE FOR WHEEL LUG NUTS

Thomas Törnblom thomas at hax.se
Sun Feb 27 10:27:13 EST 2022


I agree. 43 ft-lbs is about 58 Nm. I use around 120 Nm on all my wheels. 

> 27 feb. 2022 kl. 12:27 skrev Jo De Tomaso <detomjo at gmail.com>:
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>    I have always used 90Nm on Aluminium rims, 110 Nm on steel rims. Even
>   for drifting I have used these, never ever had a problem.
>   90Nm translates to around 66.4 Ft.lbs?
>   Jochen
> 
>   Op zo 27 feb. 2022 om 12:05 schreef Mike Drew via DeTomaso
>   <[1]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>:
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>     The factory shop manual is wrong, likely an incorrect conversion
>     from some obscure metric measurement like newton-hectares to proper
>     ft/lbs. I think it falls for only 43 ft-lbs which is downright
>     dangerous.
>     I use 75-80 ft/lbs.
>     Mike
>     Sent from my iPad
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