Hey guys,

I found some 10mm x 1.50 metric studs yesterday and am planning on replacing the drive flange bolts with them.

I am wondering if part of the reason I have had problems with bolts stripping out is me over torquing them? Previously I have just done the RFT (really fuc...tight) torque method, but I'm rethinking that now.

Anyone know what the 'official' torque spec is for those 5 bolts?

"hub driving shaft to hub" 30-38 ft-lbs.

ABS vehicles, "hub driving MEMBER to hub" 44-52 ft-lbs.

I could argue that damage due to overtorquing may be every bit as damaging as undertorquing. Bolts have a specified torque based upon size and material of construction of both the bolt and the material into which it is being torqued. Both gotta match. Don't forget some sort of lube, anti-seize, loc-tite... I try not to ever put threaded fasteners together without some sort of material there to reduce residual torque that can contribute toloosening of the bolt under dynamic conditions.

Originally posted by PTSchram
I try not to ever put threaded fasteners together without some sort of material there to reduce residual torque that can contribute toloosening of the bolt under dynamic conditions.

Woah...English please??? :flipoff2:

He said "lubricate the thread even if you're only putting a nut on a bolt. Or hubs and such will fail". :flipoff2:

Originally posted by wilsby
He said "lubricate the thread even if you're only putting a nut on a bolt. Or hubs and such will fail". :flipoff2:

Clean out your fawking ears Slade. I told you the same thing in the other thread!


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waaaaa!!!! you guys are pickin' on me!

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...whay does it matter, Mike?

Your cheap-fawk torque wrench ain't accurate enough to begin with...so you'll undoubtedly be either overtorqued or undertorqued. Reliability and precision take all of the fun and surprise out of life.

Hey I actually do have a nice torque wrench, an S-K I bought several years ago. Looks like it's time to break it out.

http://a2044.g.akamai.net/7/2044/1725/1ad6d0a46e9ac4/www.roxy.com/content/photo_galleries/100-377-760-filenameLarge.jpg

Originally posted by Serious One
Hey I actually do have a nice torque wrench, an S-K I bought several years ago. Looks like it's time to break it out.

http://a2044.g.akamai.net/7/2044/1725/1ad6d0a46e9ac4/www.roxy.com/content/photo_galleries/100-377-760-filenameLarge.jpg

Torque...huh...what?

Ahhh the life of a photographer.

Here's an article on the joys of Torque (http://www.rockcrawler.com/techreports/fasteners_torque/index.asp)

Justin

Originally posted by Serious One
Hey I actually do have a nice torque wrench, an S-K I bought several years ago. Looks like it's time to break it out.

http://a2044.g.akamai.net/7/2044/1725/1ad6d0a46e9ac4/www.roxy.com/content/photo_galleries/100-377-760-filenameLarge.jpg