@speeder, I'll torque everything on my suspension from now on...
...if I can find the
not chart generic spec for a shackle nut. I'll make sure all my castle nuts line up with the cotter at the precise torque value even if I have to go though the bin to find one.
I'm not sure where the subject of wheel nuts and studs came from, but that's another thread or hundred.
But me, being the ape that I am, actually use a TW on those. You would think such a moron as I would not bother. Even this moron has had to face the tire shop debacle on the side of the road because this moron didn't redo all the nuts after leaving the tire shop.
I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but while in college I worked at a tire shop every Saturday. Old school. Funny, but being both an ape and a moron, I never broke a stud, never cross threaded a nut and never heard of anyone that worked there ever have a car come back with loose or overtightened nuts. Hell, I never saw a hubcap come off. I did say old school, so yeah, lots of wheel covers. Still have my tool.
Fact no. 2, if I dented a WC, I bought it. That didn't happen either. Not bad for an ape working all day for a twenty dollar bill (we did quit at 4 to clean up and bust a case of beer — I didn't have to buy, proper perks, that).