Tuesday, Oct 10, 2006 at 21:31
Probably something around 100 Ft-Lb,
The workshop’s would generally use Rattle guns as to go around a toque up 20 odd lug nuts takes I wile apposed to 2 minutes with a rattle gun.
I am not saying the rattle gun is the correct way of doing it!!!!, just IMO I doubt it is the sole cause of the wheel parting ways if it was a good quality one. I normally use a ½” drive breaker bar when doing up my lug nut’s and that sure gets em tighter than 100ft-Lb.
For the Lug nut to come loose it would need to be under tightened or so tight that it had squashed the alloy rim enough to allow it to vibrate the nuts loose, don’t know what the Nissan lug nuts look like but the chamfer on them might be too small allowing the rim to be damaged when
the nut is over tightened.
To be honest I wouldn’t go trusting a toque wrench that has been sitting in the back of the 4By’s tool kit over god know how many corrugations.
I own 2 types of toque wrenches the micrometer spring-loaded type and the deflecting beam type and they are stored in protective cases.
There have been a few reports of Nissan with alloy
wheels loosing them lately surly a rattle gun has not caused all of these considering how many lug nut’s are done up every day using rattle guns on other car’s and 4WD that don’t seem to have such a widely occurring problem.
Cheers
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