need factory torque for Lug nuts

When I worked there I knew how to get around the whole work order system. Unless it's changed you can use a carry out option.
I once transfered to a Pep Boys in Austin for a couple of months and I blew the managers away. I was a service writer and the service manager ended up giving me his code to do as I pleased. Kept him free to do other things. Techs/mechs there loved it. I had lunch brought to me every day, and the customer never paid overlaping labor.

 

Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model wheel stud requires a range of 85 - 110 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 110 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the lug nuts, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.

 

If there going to be used on MY balls bearings (gotta keep it topical), it needs to be a new one

 

Gene,
I checked out my Maverick hardcover book more thoroughly and the info was there. This book give two different specs, one for 4 lug and one for 5 lug wheels.
4 Lug 55-85 ft. lbs.
5 Lug 70-115 ft. lbs.

Now off to get some tires!

 

So 80 works for both

 

i tried that...they wouldn't sell them that way because...
"these tires are not trailer rated"...

i told them they were going on an airplane and the guy said..."we don't sell airplane tires".

......

 

Wow, what a pain. :16suspect If they were that difficult, I'd probably just tell them nevermind.

 

It doesn't sound like they wanted to sell tires.

I recently stripped the threads on two lug studs with a four-way.

Then I found out nobody within 1500 miles had any replacement studs.

Special order, at least a week.....

(Lower control arms and tie rod ends could be there over night with no shipping cost, what a deal).

 

if your studs break at 100ft lbs then they needed replaced any way. i work at a tire shop and hand torque wheels all day long. i can tell before a stud breaks, i always torque wheels to the highest spec and never torque anything below 80ft lb unless it's a very small car like a geo. as a general rule if i can't find the spec i go 100ft lb on cars and small pickups and 120-150 for heavy trucks. and 450-500ft lbs on semi trucks, no i don't hand torque those.

 

super strong! lol
i could see someone trying to hand torque an 18 wheeler

 

I always carry mine in....I would not let them put my maverick on a lift Frank has a lift, so he wins!!!!


And I agree Randy, I would just go somewhere else.

 

And this is why I go to a tire shop, not a store that also sells tires. 4 tires, mounted and balanced by the guy I talked to on the phone (who was also the one at the counter when I walked in the office, and remembered the size I needed off the top of his head). After seeing a big chain store miss a very cracked aluminum wheel as the reason a tire was leaking I don't trust them. That and the same place hired a couple goons that I went to school with that I wouldn't let change tires on a bicycle.