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Old 01-23-2010, 08:51 PM
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Default Brain fart... -Lug nut torque

for a 951S is the usual 96 ft/lbs... -right?

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Old 01-23-2010, 08:59 PM
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thats what I torque them too. havent had a wheel fall off yet... at least on this car
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close enough to be good!
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Not that it amtters all too much but i believe that the 944 Al lugs are less, like 80 lb ft, the current production cars with steel bolts are 98lb ft.

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My memory says 94 lbs, for 87 NA and 88 944T. I usually torque to 100. I have gotten them back from shops at 60 to 120 without cracking the wheel, so I guess 100 is ok.
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Originally Posted by Norm Swanberg
My memory says 94 lbs, for 87 NA and 88 944T. I usually torque to 100. I have gotten them back from shops at 60 to 120 without cracking the wheel, so I guess 100 is ok.
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I wouldn't worried so much about cracking the wheel outside of stripping a lug nut.
Old 01-24-2010, 01:38 PM
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Factory Manuals says 130NM/96 ft/lbs.

Good rule of thumb I read on RL once was 88 ft/lbs, which was the speed the DeLorean had to achieve to go Back to the Future. I haven't forgotten since!




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