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Originally Posted by VQP0WER
What did you torque this nut too? I would get a large breaker/cheater bar. It will provide alot more force then a impact wrench. Nut should be tightened to 188-245 ftlbs.
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I did not torque it to spec - just tighten it hard as I possibly can by hand/non-extended breaker bar.
In theory, since that I used the breaker bar to tighten, then that same breaker bar should be able to be used to loosen it. Unfortunately, I don't have a larger pipe to cheat even further. The nut seems to turn a little in the tightening rotation and tough on the loosening rotation. It's really annoying - I didn't run into this type problem on my toyota. One thing I did notice from tighten the spindle nut is that the wheel no longer seems loose and less front-end noise. It makes me think that the bearing might not be in such a bad shape after all. By the way, I have 107k on mine so it almost seems like the time to replace my wheel bearing based on the many posts I've read here
