might want to check your nuts

[FredM]

Lug nut torque, of course it don't go back very far,
but gives and idea of how close you might be getting.

Dodge
Grand Caravan/Caravan 2000-05 110 ft-lbs
Grand Caravan/Caravan 1999 100 ft-lbs
Dakota Pickup(All) 1985-98 95 ft-lbs
Dakota Pickup 1994-05 110 ft-lbs
Durango 1998-05 110 ft-lbs
Pickup (D&W series) D100/150,D200/250 1972-93 105 ft-lbs
D300/350(1/2"stud) 1979-93 105 ft-lbs
D300/350(5/8"stud) 1979-93 105 ft-lbs
w/ flanged 5/8"stud 1979-93 200 ft-lbs
Ramcharger 1979-93 350 ft-lbs
Rampage (FWD) 1979-93 105 ft-lbs
Ram 50 Pickup 1982-84 90 ft-lbs
Ram Pickup 1987-93 100 ft-lbs
1500 2002-05 135 ft-lbs
1500 1994-01 110 ft-lbs
2500 2002-05 135 ft-lbs
2500 1994-01 150 ft-lbs
3500 2002-05 145 ft-lbs
3500 1994-01 160 ft-lbs
SRT-10 2004-05 135 ft-lbs
Ram Van
B1500 2002-05 110 ft-lbs
B1500 1998-01 115 ft-lbs
B1500 1995-97 110 ft-lbs
B2500 (9/16"-18 studs) 1999-05 150 ft-lbs
B2500 1998 115 ft-lbs
B2500 1997 110 ft-lbs
B3500 (9/16"-18 studs) 1999-05 150 ft-lbs
B3500 w/out 5/8" studs 1995-98 115 ft-lbs
with 5/8" studs 1995-98 225 ft-lbs
B150 1994 110 ft-lbs
B250/350 w/out 5/8" studs 1994 115 ft-lbs
with 5/8" studs 1994 225 ft-lbs
Ram Van (FWD) 1984-93 95 ft-lbs
Ram Wagon
B1500 2002 110 ft-lbs
B1500 1998-01 115 ft-lbs
B1500 1995-97 110 ft-lbs
B2500 (9/16"-18 studs) 1992-02 150 ft-lbs
B2500 1998 115 ft-lbs
B2500 1997 110 ft-lbs
B2500 1995-96 115 ft-lbs
B3500 (9/16"-18 studs) 1999-02 150 ft-lbs
B3500 w/out 5/58" studs 1995-98 115 ft-lbs
with 5/8" studs 1995-98 225 ft-lbs
B150 1994 110 ft-lbs
B250/B350 w/out 5/8" studs 1994 115 ft-lbs
with 5/8" studs 1994 225 ft-lbs
Wagon
B100/150 1972-93 105 ft-lbs
B200/250 1972-93 105 ft-lbs
B300/350 (1/2" studs) 1979-93 105 ft-lbs
B300/350 (5/8" studs) 1979-93 200 ft-lbs
w/ flanged 5/8" studs 1979-93 350 ft-lbs
Sprinter 2500 2004-05 140 ft-lbs
Sprinter 3500 2004-05 180 ft-lbs

[66patrick]

I love how references continue to erroneously use "foot-pounds", when the correct unit of measuring torque is "pound-feet". Think about it...the metric unit is "Newton-meters" force and distance, in that order. Not dinging the posting, just a reminder that the correct unit to measure torque is indeed "pound-feet".

Rant done.

[MikeMc]

Especially important with heavy loads.

I'm always taking pics and just happened to take a pic with the heavy load in the back ground

[john]

I'm sure that I'm a dumb @#% but I've always used a cheap beam style torque wrench, torque ing nuts to 55-60 pounds per wheel regardless of the vehicle D200 (1/2" wheel stud) and smaller. Never lost a wheel and couldn't change a tire on the side of the road using cheap factory tire "irons." This is good info though; and yes pound/foot

[MikeMc]

The secret with lug nuts is not the foot pounds but to re-check them after you drive it. When you tighten them up the first time they might not be seated correctly but after you drive it 100 miles re-check the lugs and sometimes they make up a little more. Usually after being re-tighten they wont ever have a problem again.

[john]

MikeMc. Yes, and thanks for adding your re-torque comment. I drive 18 wheels for a living. Re-torqing at or near 500 miles is required by all the class 8 truck shops for legal concerns. Re-torqing is critical with disk brakes as well.

[MikeMc]

John, do you find it to be as necassary to re torque with aluminum wheels?

[john]

Just got home again (31 days out). Never had a re-torque issue with aluminum wheels. Something about steel though. Hot/cold changes the lug nut torque. I always re-torque steel wheels; after 1 hard lesson (a loose wheel). I have steel wheels re-torqued at or just before 500 miles.

[jgeebee63]

I am a mechanic working on garbage trucks, and my opinion is that retorque is vital on all highway truck wheels whether they be steel or aluminum.

We do ours 100 miles after every tire repair.

Make sure the mounting surfaces on the drums and wheels are clean before mounting the wheel. Inspect the studs and replace them if there is any corrosion or damaged threads. Running plastic wheel saver gaskets between the steel drums and aluminum wheels prevents damage and corrosion.

When you install the nuts on Budd wheels, put one drop of oil (I use AW 32 hydraulic oil in a squeeze bottle) between the flange of the nut and the nut body. DON'T OIL THE THREADS ON THE STUD. The oil in the nut lubricates it when you spin it on,and ensures that the torque measured by the torque wrench is accurate, rolling torque.

It is always best to let the torque wrench do the final torque, instead of reaming on it a little longer with an impact gun.

We run wheel torque indicators on our trucks. They don't cost much at all, and are way cheaper than the cost of losing a wheel set and killing someone.

Check your nuts and cover your @#%.

Jason

[PwrWgnDrvr]

I just listen for that funky, distinctive, sort of grinding/tinkling sound that a wheel makes as it wallows itself out on the studs. U always have a few miles to pull over after u hear it, but before the studs shear off.
Aluminum wheels probably make a different sound....

[jgeebee63]

[67LSD200]

A bit off topic but not really (and being a 10 year old thread, I figured it could use a re-torque):
As teenagers, my friends and I all got the classic car bug; bringing home a 69 Chevelle on the day I got my license set off a chain reaction. Soon, many of the adults in the neighborhood relived the days of their classics vicariously by giving them to us for a couple hundred bucks, if that.
Our mailman had a vw bus and a 65 dart. I bought the bus for $50, my late best friend, Jeremy (Rest In Peace Brother!) got the dart. He previously lost a wheel on his 65 Pontiac Catalina, the nuts were installed taper side out causing the studs to slowly but surely cut out a complete circle between the original holes in the rim. This was met with mixed emotion: the car was plopped in the middle of the road, but that clunking noise wasn't an issue any longer!
As you might guess, it was the reversed threads that got him with the dart. The officer who sa th at the top of our street guarding the mayor's house wasn't amused!

[TedWitt]

I checked my nuts, they are just fine......……..lol