To take this topic in another direction; I was always taught to tighten
wheel nuts by first - loosely running them on by hand till they grabbed,
then tightening them in a pattern which crosses from one side of the hub
to the other. This is hard to describe whereas a picture is very clear.
If you number the nuts from the top in a clockwise direction on say a
Jeep wheel then you get 1 through to 5.
But you would tighten them as 1,3,5,2,4, much like a cylinder head is
evenly tightened down? You do this, then repeat the pattern as a check.
Several times I have found it necessary to do it a third time as the first
one or 2 nuts were noticeably looser than the last ones to be tightened.
This pattern was supposedly to assure that the wheel would not be buckled
by an uneven amount of tension, and that all nuts would be of similar
tension.
Yet whenever I go to a tyre place they grab a ratchet gun and do all my
wheels in the 1 through to 5 order.
What are your thoughts on the subject?
Regards
Doug
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