anybody know what the lugnuts should be torqued to on a new set of 17x7's with tuner lugnuts...
The lugnuts I got from my buddy, he only gave me 15, so I got 3 on one of the back wheels. I should have a brand new set soon coming this week hopefully. Anyway, will 3 do alright on of the wheels in the back? and what is the torque specs.

 

3 should be fine for the time being. 80ft lbs is what you want.

 

If you still have your stock lugnuts, I would use one of those for the time being while you're awaiting the missing one.

I realize that lugnuts for stock wheels are a different shape (acorn) from those (tapered) for aftermarket wheels, so the one lugnut won't mate around the entire seating surface of the wheel, only around a circle. But it's only temporary, and I would rather have a lugnut that mated around a circle there, than no lugnut at all.

Also, until you get your matching lugnut - whether you use one stock one or a missing one - I would suggest not going over about 65 mph and not doing any aggressive cornering, burnouts, etc.

 

well, I went about 110 last night, felt some vibration, I took a S curve at about 45-50mph, and did about 3 burn outs. And someone said torque them to 80 pounds, but I think I hit way over kill on the 80
Thanks

 

I was torquing to about 90lbs but had problems with my brake rotors warping, now I'm doing around 110 to 120lbs of torque and the rotors have reduced their warpage, From now on if I replace the rotors I'm going to keep the torque high.
i'm running 18x7.5's

 

Overtorquing the lug nuts like you guys are doing can cause problems that are just as serious as undertorquing them.

Stick to 80 lb-ft.

 

90 here

 

80 ft lbs no more no less you will **** up **** if there over torqued

 

I dont think over torque is as dangerous if you guys think. If any of you have ever taken your car to a shop like goodyear you might notice that they use their air tools for EVERYTHING, and they dont torque anything to spec.

typically places like that torque the lugs to over 250 ft-lbs on the lugs which means to get them off by hand you have to jump up and down on the wrench just to budge it. Now that is way to much as we all know but I havent heard of anyone having any problems with over-torqued lugs, its always the undertorque that causes the problem.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NeoBlack1108 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I dont think over torque is as dangerous if you guys think. If any of you have ever taken your car to a shop like goodyear you might notice that they use their air tools for EVERYTHING, and they dont torque anything to spec.

typically places like that torque the lugs to over 250 ft-lbs on the lugs which means to get them off by hand you have to jump up and down on the wrench just to budge it. Now that is way to much as we all know but I havent heard of anyone having any problems with over-torqued lugs, its always the undertorque that causes the problem.</TD></TR></TABLE>

have you ever seen them use this product??

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog...talog


stick with 80ft lbs. i bet those shops that overtorque your lugs just want you to come back to get them loosened by them for an extra fee

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NeoBlack1108 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">to get them off by hand you have to jump up and down on the wrench just to budge it. </TD></TR></TABLE>

this is how they can snap, you should not jump up and down on the wrench.





Modified by gsxr at 12:11 AM 12/30/2003

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gsxr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

have you ever seen them use this product??

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog...talog


Never thought about that

stick with 80ft lbs. i bet those shops that overtorque your lugs just want you to come back to get them loosened by them for an extra fee </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NeoBlack1108 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I havent heard of anyone having any problems with over-torqued lugs, its always the undertorque that causes the problem.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Absolutely not true. Overtorquing can create problems that range from warped rotors to stripped threads to snapped lugnuts.

 

yes, over and undertorquing are both a problem, but go for 80 lbs torque all day. just go and buy you a torque stick and never think twice about it.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EvilIntegrationLS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">go for 80 lbs torque all day. just go and buy you a torque stick</TD></TR></TABLE>

...or use a torque wrench when tightening. Either way...

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EvilIntegrationLS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">never think twice about it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

overtorquing will warp your rotors. Period. The places that dont use torque wrenches are too lazy and doing it incorrectly.

 

I torqued mine at 90. Are they supposed to be torqued at 80 or 90?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bizarre &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I torqued mine at 90. Are they supposed to be torqued at 80 or 90?</TD></TR></TABLE>

80.

 

are there any changes that should be made to compensate for tuner lug nuts or larger wheels? I went with 80 w/ torque wrench on my aftermarket wheels with brand new rotors and they warped in under 3 weeks.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NeoBlack1108 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">are there any changes that should be made to compensate for tuner lug nuts or larger wheels? I went with 80 w/ torque wrench on my aftermarket wheels with brand new rotors and they warped in under 3 weeks.</TD></TR></TABLE>

80 ft-lbs should be fine, even with tuner nuts and/or larger wheels.

I bet your rotors weren't actually warped. Read this...