Torque wheel nuts

[fourteenten]

How much (max) torque, in ft-lbs or Nm we put on the 5 Fuchs wheel nuts?

Thx,

cees

[ttweed]

I use 94 ft.-lbs. Get your torque wrench calibrated. Mine was off by 10 ft.-lbs when it was brand new.

TT

[Chris Tallon]

I use 90 Lbs

[John Straub]

I use 95 lbs.

[fourteenten]

Thanks all, I am gonna use 90-95 ft lbs. Just found the specifications book that says 13,0 mkp. I guess that's kilo pounds meter (funny that Porsche mixes metric and imperial units for torque). Rather have ft-lbs, and that's what we use to torque up drill collars/ drill pipe, only a bit a higher at 90,000 ft-lbs ....

Cees

[dvkk]

. Just found the specifications book that says 13,0 mkp. I guess that's kilo pounds meter (funny that Porsche mixes metric and imperial units for torque).

That spec is actually mkg. It is a bastard unit. Torque is measured in force x distance. mkg is mass x distance, so not a measure of torque. The correct units in metric are Nm.

[37yrold911]

that is a closer answer. it is in kiloponds and is not a bastard unit, it is a unit of Force defined to be easy to convert into kilograms (the unit of mass)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopond

today, we use N-m for torque

also that unit had nothing to do with pounds, the US & British Imperial unit for mass or force, depending...

this will be a useful mini-app for many...
http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/