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Originally Posted by Al Weyman
I whizz them up and take them off with a gun but always final tighten with torque wrench
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Same here, Al.
Even if the wheel casting resists the torque, I have known over-enthusiastically tightened wide-rim single seater studs to pull out from the hub.
Can be impossible to see the crystallization by eye and needs UV + fluorescent powder, X Ray or similar crack testing.
Early MG Midget/Sprite rims were notoriously weak (Too thin); and the centres would happily pull out, particularly where over-torqued.
I watched this happen to the Autosport cartoonist, Barry Foley, in his Clubman's car: he wasn't happy!