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Old 01-09-2015, 10:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Kristophe View Post
When you reinstalled the new hub nut (s) did you torque to 330 lb pounds?
Yes, but I did it the old fashioned way, by placing a certain amount of weight at a certain length of pipe. I placed my breaker bar (20") on the nut and slipped the jack handle extension over it more (making it a "cheater bar"), and since I am approx 185 lbs, I stood at the 21" mark to torque the bolt to 330 ft lbs.

Its the old school and garage mechanic way to do it but it worked quite awesome I must say.

I looked at the HF 300 ft lb torque wrench but didn't want to spend 80 bucks for a tool I will literally use once. I had enough "one time use" tools from that job lol
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