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Old 12-12-2011, 02:44 PM   #1
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Torque wrench on lugs is critical on the Yaris

critical, because over-tight can induce warping as I found
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I had slapped on my winter rims with 'pretty dang tight' and no torque wrench,
and all is fine and everything seemed OK.

a little bit when braking, I felt a thumping...Oh no....warped rotors...no way
did I overheat these things....I mean...really ????

anyhow, finally I dug out the digital torque wrench and retorqued all
my bolts to 76 foot pounds.

a) I found my human-gorilla torque was around 84/88/91/80 about average for all my lugs, but one front was 97 !!!!

b) after retorque to specs, Yaris is smooth as butter when braking

c) gorilla-tech method is always fine for my 4runner, but that thing has
much bigger rotors.

conclusion: you change tires on this little Yaris, torque wrench really is
a requirement. 'Just freaking tight' is going to be overkill on weeny rotors
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Old 12-12-2011, 04:10 PM   #2
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You have to be careful to tighen the nuts properly no matter if you use a torque wrench or not.
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Old 12-12-2011, 04:21 PM   #3
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well I did do it 'properly', but overtorqued one 'cuz I didn't have a
tool to measure, other than 'gumption

properly means use a torque wrench, so this statement doesn't make sense
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You have to be careful to tighen the nuts properly no matter if you use a torque wrench or not.

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Old 12-13-2011, 06:33 AM   #4
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"Properly" as in "tightening the lugs in the correct sequence." (Not saying you did it wrong, just pointing that out.)
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