By Steve (Steve2) on Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 07:23 pm: Edit

just curious - 85ft lbs? am going to put anti-seize on all my bolts - and don't really trust the dealer to hand torque my lug nuts....

thanks
steve

By RonLF on Friday, October 05, 2001 - 01:39 am: Edit

Steve,

I have a '99 series 1 with alloys and the manual calls out 96-98 lbs. But of you use a torque wrench on a bolt with anti-seize, the actual torque will be high because the anti-seize will act like grease. I would torque them to 96-98(no or a very small amount of anti-seize) and rotate your tire every 6000 miles and you should have a problem.

By Matt Milbrandt (95discovery) on Friday, October 05, 2001 - 06:29 am: Edit

Workshop manual says 96 lb ft. for alloy or steel.

Matt

By peter matusov on Friday, October 05, 2001 - 06:34 am: Edit

in general, don't use any stuff on the studs or nuts.
with grease, it is very easy to overtorque the nuts and eventually break of the stud.

i use occasionally a drop of ATF on a stud so that the nut and stud don't rust-fuse together. ATF is very thin, and doesn't act like grease during the torqueing.

96 lb-ft

peter