Just bought a torque wrench for the troopy

Toytruck

The mob I went to at the central coast recently told me that they use a different length extension for different makes of cars so they don't over tighten. Each extension was also a different colour.

I just loosened one of the nuts and thought it was about right so maybe they have a primitive, but effective way of tightening the nuts.

Boo Boo

Nothing primitive about it at all. I just wish all tyre services would invest in them.

Rock Ape

I just had another look at handbook and found the answer. Although my book says 157N.m as oppposed to your 137. where did you get your info? Has Toyota changed it? 157 is equal to 116 ft-lb which seems a lot.

Regards

Is the difference between 5 lug and 6 lug? I know yours is a 1995 6lug.

The 137nm came from a 1980 to 1990 Gregorys, the higher reading of 157nm may be for the 1990 to 1999 75's.

I had trouble with studs on a freezing morning in the middle of know where, they had been rattled up that tight I broke 4 undoing them, I prayed the others weren't fractured as it would have been a long long walk. Limped back ok and had a few words with the fitter.

I anti seize the threads and only use a spanner, don't have any problems with loose nuts or ones you can't undo.

Don't know but the 5 stud didn't come out till around 2000 in the 78/79 series

The 5 stud are 14mm thread, while the 6 stud are 12mm thread. So the factory torque required for the 5 stud Cruisers is considerably more.