Torque wrench

I use a CDI 6004MFRMH 3/4" drive.

 

Grainger has a 375 pounder at almost 600.

If it is just a couple nuts, you would have a shop torque em for a half hour labor.

https://www.grainger.com/category/d...sories/wrenches/tools/ecatalog/N-167yZ1yzczfz

 

Whichever you get, be sure to have calibrated. Usually you can find a deal on eBay. Got mine for 75$, then maybe 15$ for tubing and clamps. Worth it on $ you save doing tires yourself.

 

3/4 rechet wrench with a cheater bar.
Even when they come out on road and torque your wheels ( with a high dollar torque wrench )they ask you to check them after the first 100 miles in writing.
What does that tell you?

 

That is called a legal CYA. They require the same when done in a tire shop. Just had my steers rotated in a TA, Had to sign the paper saying as much.
Just in case there is something between the wheels that comes out and lets your nuts loosen.
Also using a torque wrench should prevent the stretching of the studs.

 

i really need to buy a big tq wrench for lug nuts but its really the only thing i need one that big for. what i do is i calculated using my body weight how far out i need to be on a breaker bar hang my weight on it then i have a breaker bar with that distance marked on it.

 

I remember reading a thread. The poster owned the truck, and the driver had some obsession with torquing the lug nuts everyday. They were close to impossible to get off.

 

@Bean Jr.

That driver prolly had nightmares about his wheels coming off.

I have a similar phobia...so I usually ask someone else to double check the lug nuts

 

This is the wheel nut torque thread equivillent to the "How to make a right turn?" thread:

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/retorquing-the-lugnuts.306593/