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Properly Tightening Your
Lug Nuts
Whether its trailer tires, car tires, truck tires or any
other vehicle tire, proper tightening of your lug nuts is an
important safety issue. Here's how to do it properly.
IMPORTANT!
Proper installation requires that the wheel lug torque be set to the recommended specification for your vehicle.
These torque specifications can be found in your vehicle’s shop manual or obtained from your vehicle dealer.
Finish tightening the lugs down with an accurate torque wrench. Use a crisscross sequence (shown below) until they have reached their proper torque value.
Be careful because if you over torque a wheel, you can strip a lug nut, stretch or break a wheel stud, and cause the wheel, brake rotor and/or brake drum to distort.
NOTE:
When installing new wheels you should re-torque them after traveling the first 50 to 100 miles.
This is necessary because as the wheels are “breaking in” they may compress slightly allowing their lugs to lose some of their torque. Simply repeat the same torque procedure listed above.
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