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Old 06-25-2010, 10:16 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by josh18_2k View Post
first sign of wear (in my case) was after hard driving, you'll hear a rhythmic swishing type sound coming from the outside wheel in a turn. bearings can last 20 days or 20 years.. just gotta grease them well and keep the fronts torqued to spec (22 ft.lb). they'll need to be retorqued a few times in the first couple hundred miles as they settle in.

Just curious, where did you see 22ftlbs? The FSM uses a pull type scale to measure resistance when tightening them.. I'll have to pull up the exact numbers again, but I was just curious where you learned the 22ftlbs?
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