I an about to rotate my tires and the manual dosen't tell the tourqe anyone know ?

 

I read in my manual that the torque for the 1500 is 135ft. lb. I start at 100ft. lb. then crank them up to 135ft. lb. Its just a habit I have doing the 2 steps.

 

The torque specs on the 1500 were changed--I think for 2005--to 95 ft/lbs. There were claims the 135 ft/lbs spec contributed to warped rotors. I've been using 95 ft/lbs.

Roger...

 

touque to 135 ft. lb.

 

I don't know what the spec is, but I agree you should use the low end of the torque range spec for this reason. Also don't let tire monkey's torque your nuts with air guns. Ever...

 

I learned that lesson (well, I didn't learn anything really, already knew). Bought my truck, and about 4 months later when I was doing a tire rotation, the lug nut was so tight on there, I rounded the nut off on two of them. Called the dealer I bought it from, got mad with them (they said it was my fault) but they finally accepted the fault and agreed to pay for the work needed.
Anyways, got it fixed at a dealer. They were able to use their air gun to take one of the nuts off, had to torch the other off. Around $200 in work.
I wasn't able to prevent the people from using air guns before I bought the truck, but since than, I've made sure to say, "let me tighten those wheels on there will ya."

 

I don't know what the spec is, but I agree you should use the low end of the torque range spec for this reason. Also don't let tire monkey's torque your nuts with air guns. Ever...

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Which is why I take my rims and tires in to have mounted/balanced, then bring them home and mount them myself. Its more work, but I'm **** about letting anyone touch my vehicles. Also, I've heard about the 135ft lb warping rotors, and haven't had a problem yet. I've got nearly 30,000 miles on my truck and probably rotated my tires 4 times. 95ft. lb. on a lug nut that takes a 7/8 socket seems too low, since my neon has 3/4 lugnuts and it gets torqued to 100ft. lb.

 

Here's a snapshot from the 2004 Service Manual from Section 22 page 18:



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95 ft pounds........ re torque after 1000 miles and be thankful you didnt buy into dodges way of getting you to replace your brakes every 20,000 miles........lol kiddin