Posted by CSCameron [174.26.45.190] on Friday, February 28, 2014 at 09:12:23 :
In Reply to: Spindle Nut Torque? posted by CSCameron [174.26.45.190] on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 14:49:45 :
Well, everything I have read says tighten to seat bearings while rotating the tire, then back off 1/6 to 1/4 turn. Then tighten outer nut to lock in place. Great, how tight is tight?
My problem with this is the inaccuracy of it, it's too subjective. What is tight to me may be loose to someone else, or even myself from wheel to wheel. Since I'm no mechanic and this is the first time I've done this, my "feel" (rather lack of it) will be different from someone who's done this 100s of times. I was just trying to find some middle ground where I could be less subjective and more consistent on all the wheels without killing myself or burning up the bearings.
Someone mentioned a technique of tightening until you could only get the wheel to spin 1 1/2 revolutions. The problem with this method is my new disc brake pads are dragging on the rotors creating additional resistance. How do you compensate for that?
In the end, obviously, the two major concerns are; not being tight enough, and having the wheel fall off, or being too tight, and cooking the bearings. It sounds like most of you disagree with the 100 ft/lbs. spec. So, we are narrowing the accepted spec to somewhere between 15 and 100 ft.lbs.?
I did notice that when I took the nuts off, they were not extremely tight and came off rather easily, I mean I didn't have to use a cheater. Actually, I didn't notice much of a difference between either nut. I will pay much closer attention to the fronts when I take them apart this next week and will try to figure out the torque on them when I remove them.
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