> Alan
>
> 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
>
Hi Doug,
My general approach is roughly as follows:
1) Install all nuts snugly, but not tightened (say, about 10-15 ft. lbs).
2) Then cross-tighten them all to about two-thirds of the proper torque.
3) Then cross-tighten them all again to full torque.
For some folks, this might be overkill, but for what it's worth, in almost 35
years of driving and dozens of vehicles, I've never warped a hub or drum or
had a wheel come loose that I personally installed with this method. I've also
been able to remove them easily when necessary.
Alan
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