Front hub flange torque confusion

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riffman12

riffman12

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Hi guys

I'm about to get in and tighten down my front wheel bearings.

I'm finding mixed info on torque specs for the 6 nuts that hold on the flange and cone washers on the outside of the hub. The ones you see when you first take the center caps off the wheels.

Can someone confirm the torque for those?

I've seen very low numbers in inch lbs. And also seen 21 ft lbs

I don't have an inch pound wrench. Is it something that has to be perfect?
 
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Cool looks like 26 ft lbs

Not sure why i saw inch lbs in a big axle service write up
 
so all went smoothly. I didn't have a fish scale or any of that, but I basically tightened the bearing adjuster nut until there was just barely no more when yanking on the wheel at 12 and 6. Seems to be running nicely and took away a bit of wobble I had when coming to a stop.

The only hang up was that one of my flange studs started spinning on me. I got the nut and cone washer off fine, and just reassembled it. Will this be an issue? How do I tighten those things?
 
NLXTACY said:
I would remove it fully to make sure it wasn't broken at all. If fine then just double nut it to hand tight.
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ah didn't even think of that. Hope it's not the case. Thanks I'll try that.
 
I’ve had issues with stripping the hub studs myself. I wasn’t even able to get to 26 ft lbs before the nut started spinning on the stud.
 
I had that happen too, thought it might have been a one-off. If you've had it happen as well that's cause for concern. So you had brand new studs, 90116-08325, strip on the initial torque to 26 ft lbs? Happened with one of the studs on by rebuild the other day. Maybe Toyota aren't manufacturing these using hard enough steel.
 
cleophis1975 said:
I totally agree. It’s brand spanking new hardware straight out of the bag.
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If you have any tips as to do this with more finesse, I’m all ears. I have another set of hardware and plan to tighten it slowly and incrementally.
DivByZero said:
I had that happen too, thought it might have been a one-off. If you've had it happen as well that's cause for concern. So you had brand new studs, 90116-08325, strip on the initial torque to 26 ft lbs? Happened with one of the studs on by rebuild the other day. Maybe Toyota aren't manufacturing these using hard enough steel.
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these studs feel like they’re made of cheese, not steel. Haha. I will be calling the place where I ordered them this afternoon.
 
cleophis1975 said:
If you have any tips as to do this with more finesse, I’m all ears. I have another set of hardware and plan to tighten it slowly and incrementally.
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Without knowing how you tightened these before, it's always good practice to tighten fasteners in a bolted connection incrementally.
Tighten them firm by hand in a pattern 12o'clock, 6 o'clock, 2, 8, 4, 10, then torque in same pattern.
 
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