Spacer Torque Question

I know the spacer topic has been beat to death. I have 25mm on all corners.
And I do have the instructions but they don't say anything about re-torquing them after a certain amount of time/miles.

I've had them on my car for a year and about a 1,000 miles now. Should I Take the wheels off and check the torque on them?

Thank You!

Its good to always check I dont see a negative by doing it.

What paul said. Its hella good idea to check and retorque. It is very common to find the torque (preload) has dropped some after couple hundred miles. So easy to do.

Re-Torque as needed, its always a great feeling to have them just right.

sigintel said:

What paul said. Its hella good idea to check and retorque. It is very common to find the torque (preload) has dropped some after couple hundred miles. So easy to do.

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Typically 500 miles and recheck

A practice I got into on my Jeep that has had spacers on it for a decade was to only check the torque at 70% of the actual/initial torque value. This was due to me using loctite on the lugs. The idea is if your torque wrench accidentally a tad higher than the initial torque value you might break the loctite bond and not realize it. If your lugs have come loose it should be instantly noticeable when checking with the torque wrench set at 70%. I don't recall ever having had one loose in 100k miles and a few times of removing the spacers for brake jobs and other misc. reasons. Just some food for thought.

If you're not using loctite, most definitely check them with 100% torque value.

I thought the torque value of a static lug nut was not the same as a lug spinning to torque value. How do you guys "retorque" them? I always thought the torque values were only valid if you had a continuous movement to torque.

Correct. Because of that you should be able to recheck with the same torque.

JKL1031 said:

Correct. Because of that you should be able to recheck with the same torque.

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Correct

What are you guys torquing yours at? I thought 95/100 was correct(i lost my spec sheet).
I just checked CJ Pony Parts and they said 125.

Then torque the wheel to the spacer at 150 correct?

fstenuf said:

What are you guys torquing yours at? I thought 95/100 was correct(i lost my spec sheet).
I just checked CJ Pony Parts and they said 125.

Then torque the wheel to the spacer at 150 correct?

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Adapter to Hub (Factory specs) 150 ft lbs
Wheel to Adapter 95 ft lbs

Recheck the torque between 100-200 miles, then every 2000 miles afterward according to the sheet which came with the spacers from CJPP. Seems like Bill from CJPP should reshoot the video with the correct information