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Old 06-30-2014, 12:45 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Those hubs do look pretty sweet!

Do you guys impact your lugs back on as well? I spend way more time putting wheels on than taking them off, and I suspect that's because I'm pointlessly wasting time on things that don't matter as much as I think they do. I sit there and hand-turn the lugs down to initial snug and ensure the wheel is flat and the cone seats are centered first. Then I do a star-pattern with a regular wrench and ballpark them to ~40-50 by hand, then go back over it again with a handheld torque wrench to 85.

Then again I've seen trackside shops toss a wheel on a car and use an electric impact. They put all 5 on straight to final torque one by one and they're done, and I guess they assume everything will seat itself given sufficient torque. I can hear clicks like an automatic torque limiter, but I don't know if that's in the gun or in some socket-adapter? When I try googling, I never turn up much except those solid torque-limiting extension sticks, which I'm guessing just flex when they reach their limit.
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