Okay, this will lead our learning down two different roads, but, for grins and giggles I tested the torque on my rear axle lock nuts after getting my preload perfect on my rear axle. I did exactly as the FSM teaches - 43 ftlbs on the nut, spin the hub several times several ways, 43 ftlbs again, then as the FSM teaches, loosen the nut and tighten to hand strength and then keep tightening until you get the proper preload and until it is lined up with the index line on the axle housing / axle spindle. Well with my preload at exactly 6 to 6.2 lbs I can tell you that my locknuts are at approx 48ftlbs, yes I repeat 48 ftlbs. I put my torque wrench on the locknuts and tested them to 48ftlbs. My hubs spin smoothly, preload tests the same time after time and everything else looks perfect.
So, the two different roads I mentioned above ... taking this info further, if it takes literally 48ftlbs to get the rear axle setup properly, the whole argument about whether we should torque the front axle nuts to 4 ftlbs (48inlbs) as with FSM method or 10 ftlbs (120inlbs) as with LT's method seems sorta silly and to think that I was one of the ones that stated over and over that 10lbs was "over twice what the FSM recommended" and should therefore be avoided altogether. Now, I've gotten perfect preloads using 54inlbs to 72inlbs over and over and over but again if in fact the rears are regularly at 40+ ftlbs, I think that proves that the fronts can take the 10lb recommendation that LT sorta started for all of us on here.
Thoughts on this??? Has anyone else ever measured the torque on the rear axle locknuts AFTER getting the preload properly setup? If so, what was the torque?
So, the two different roads I mentioned above ... taking this info further, if it takes literally 48ftlbs to get the rear axle setup properly, the whole argument about whether we should torque the front axle nuts to 4 ftlbs (48inlbs) as with FSM method or 10 ftlbs (120inlbs) as with LT's method seems sorta silly and to think that I was one of the ones that stated over and over that 10lbs was "over twice what the FSM recommended" and should therefore be avoided altogether. Now, I've gotten perfect preloads using 54inlbs to 72inlbs over and over and over but again if in fact the rears are regularly at 40+ ftlbs, I think that proves that the fronts can take the 10lb recommendation that LT sorta started for all of us on here.
Thoughts on this??? Has anyone else ever measured the torque on the rear axle locknuts AFTER getting the preload properly setup? If so, what was the torque?
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