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[Badunit]

I don't care what shop puts my wheels on, first thing I do when I get home is check the torque. I suppose this doesn't prevent them from severely overtightening them or from tightening them in a circle versus cross-tightening but I've never had a wheel come loose. Even when I'm the one putting the wheels on, I recheck the torque the next day.

 

[grimesja]

Hi guys, I just bought an 2006 2500 142K found three lug nuts snapped on the left front wheel. Replaced studs. Drove 800 mikes from Mississippi to Jacksonville. Went to my local carwash, did a u turn and heard a pop. then the truck started shaking at 45 mph. Went to Goodyear, found three studs broken on the right wheel. we ordered studs from NAPA replaced all studs on Thursday. I drove to Orland and back around 420 miles no issues. Took truck in on Monday for an alignment and tire rotation/balance the tech went to torque the lugnuts to specification and one of the studs snapped. Is this a common issue

 

[Deleted member 995608]

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I've only broken a few wheel studs on my Dodge trucks. I'm guessing it's from over tightened lug nuts which is common at tire shops. For the last several years, I tell the guy if he 'He Mans' my lug nuts with the 3/4" air ratchet, I won't be back. Nothing worse than trying to break loose over tightened lugs on the side of a highway.

 

[MLee]

These tire tire shops think that the TORQUE bar is the answer to all things. I like 125 ft llbs on mine, Last time I was in there I requested 125, the write up person said we have to put them to the MFG. specs, 150 ft llb. I checked mine the other day and, with my torque wrench @ said setting 160 and it clicked so I know mine is at MORE than 150 Ft# This is what he told me. If requested they will hand tighten them but you still don't know for certain that is what your getting. Air wrench is QUICKER. So here is another question, Does the torque bar loose its spec over time?????

 

[grimesja]

My struggle with the studs issue is I had an 01 with 340,000+ mile. I never had a stud issue. I just bought the 06 I have broken 7 studs without any abuse.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

My struggle with the studs issue is I had an 01 with 340,000+ mile. I never had a stud issue. I just bought the 06 I have broken 7 studs without any abuse.

Might need to check the lug hole opening on the wheels. Maybe a heavy burr has developed that's digging into the lug. Maybe the holes are out of round causes wheel movement when driving even though the nuts feel tight initially.

The only lugs I ever broke was from something I did wrong.

 

[seafish]

These tire tire shops think that the TORQUE bar is the answer to all things. I like 125 ft llbs on mine, Last time I was in there I requested 125, the write up person said we have to put them to the MFG. specs, 150 ft llb. I checked mine the other day and, with my torque wrench @ said setting 160 and it clicked so I know mine is at MORE than 150 Ft# This is what he told me. If requested they will hand tighten them but you still don't know for certain that is what your getting. Air wrench is QUICKER. So here is another question, Does the torque bar loose its spec over time?????

Pretty sure that the lug nut spec on these 8 lug trucks is 135 foot pounds per.

That being said, if not stored properly (i.e. tension on the spring released between uses) a torque wrench can lose its spec over time, though I doubt by very much.

I'd imagine it MUCH more likely that the monkey using it to tighten your lugs simply didn't know how to use it properly…maybe he didn't set it right, or just couldn't read,the tiny numbers, or kept wrenching past the click, or even went around one more time, going up to the click again without knowing he was further tightening the lug, or didn't wok it up to torque in a sequence…the possibilities are endless and inversely related to the IQ of the monkey using the wrench…lol.

 

[jhenderson]

I use the same on my steel wheels. I use torque sticks on my impact gun. I know some folks don't trust them but every time I've double checked them they've been within 5lbs. That's close enough for me.

 

[EDankievitch]

I had an issue with my 2012, if I attempted to torque the lugs to the 135 ft/lbs the manual spec out the studs would stretch and break. First I thought my snap-on torque wrench was out of spec so I sent it out to have it re cal'ed. It was in good and in spec. It seems the Metric studs (used on 2012 and newer) can't be torqued as high as the book says. I know the book says 135 I've been going up to 110 ft/lbs with no issues since.

 

[Blu-meanie]

I watch the knuckle draggers when they torque the wheel nuts. Usually they use that air hammer, then they put a torque wrench on them and if it snaps they think it's good. They should turn at least 1/4 turn before the wrench says it's torqued. These guys are just kids and haven't been trained correctly. I do my own rotations, and have since Big O stripped the nuts on a Chevy truck I used to have. They bought me new nuts and several studs.