You would be amazed at what kind of torque you can apply with a simple
socket wrench, let alone the tire iron. I torque my race car to 95ftlbs
and it really doesn't feel like a lot. I can easily exceed that with a
standard wrench. If you tighten them with the tire iron using the "crank
n' grunt" method, I guarantee you're getting well over 100.
Mark Litherland
'00 SLT 4.7 for sale
At 12:16 AM 5/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Believe it or not, many trucks come over-torqued from the factory.
>
>Last time mine were touched (not counting Monday) was when BJ's put the new
>tires on in January. When I do my rotations I use the tire iron that comes
>with the truck - if I'm getting over 100 ft-lbs on that thing I'd be
>shocked.
>
>Will have to get into Sears this weekend and pick up a big TQ wrench...I
>have the beam-type but it's a pain and only goes to 75 ft-lbs. I'm sure
>I'll need bigger anyway pretty soon.
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