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Originally Posted by mepr
huh sounds like a problem some people have whith Isuzus. I know alot of books and such say that lugnut torque on Troopers should be 90ft-lb. That is downright untrure, its 65ft-lb. I would suspect this is much the same deal. i would look in your owners manual for the lug nut torque and loosen all the lugnuts then torque them to that spec. Good Luck
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I traded in my Isuzu Trooper and can also confirm that the torque rate was 65/ft. lbs. I used to work in a tire mounting shop and they had the torque requirements for all vehicles posted on a chart. The Trooper was by far one of the lowest (actually, there were a few vehicles below 60/ft. lbs).
The problem that I encountered with my own Trooper as well as customers who brought their's in was the fact that if you torque the wheel down over the recommended value, it caused several problems.
My main problem is when I would get my tires rotated, balanced, or repaired, the shop that would do it would just air gun them on and when I went to remove the wheels to do brake work or whatever, a few of the studs would snap off. This was due to them gunning on the lugnuts without regards to torque. From my experience, gunning on lugnuts all the way down probably puts the torque in the 100-140/ft. lb range which is too much.
Lugnuts should always be hand torqued down to avoid such issues as this and doing any possible damage to the rotors.