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Old 06-21-2014, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton View Post
I haven't looked at wheel bearing torque specs for years until a couple weeks ago when I was doing new hubs/bearings on my F350---it was something around 20 lbs then back off and then go to 17 INCH lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so you might want to check that second spec??????????

I just went and looked up several different makes on front wheel bearings and they varied from 12 ft lbs to 20 and then back off and retighten to 15-17 inch lbs while most stated FINGER tight then back off for the cotter key-------
Sounds ok to me.

Some do them up too tight, some too loose. Both are wrong.
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