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Re: Long term effects of undertorqued wheel studs?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 10/22/2010 1 Reply

Damaged lugs are tough.

If they are overtorqued, the studs can stretch past their elastic state into a plastic state and simply break off...which will then leave the wheel held on by only a couple studs. The overloading that the remaining studs experience wi... Login to read more.

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