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[Jimbob]

 

[davethediver]

It is very tight i know when Elite Pete did mine i think we went through two sockets snapping, and that was just getting the damn thing off

[kcl]

You can imagine the needed torque like this: 320 Nm is approximately 32 kilograms on a one meter lever. So, you'll need 64 kilograms on a 50 cm lever and so on... With a regular T-handle of your socket set (which is around 25 cm or so) you can stand on with one foot.

As result, the nut is as tight as one can get it with handtools

that can't be right :-/. 32 kg can be picked up with one hand, and placed on the end of a meter long lever isn't going to do much tightening. 320 Nm tight is ball breaking tight ..... the proverbial tighten till you fart - then another quater turn.  
320Nm in 'English' is 236lbft which uses the same method as yours ie 236 lbs on the end of a lever one foot long. That's going to equate to much much more than 36kg on a meter long bar.  :-/  :-/

I was wondering the same while writing that but where am I wrong? 320 Nm is approx. 32 kpm, isn't it? I know the hub nuts are tight, my torque wrench is only up to 240Nm and I just tightened the nut as tight as I could get it.

[feeutfo]

....but how many grunts is that?

320nm = 1 fart. How many grunts to a fart though? needs to be accurate, i dont want to get to a fart suddenly then go to far...?
 

[aaronjb]

....but how many grunts is that?

320nm = 1 fart. How many grunts to a fart though? needs to be accurate, i dont want to get to a fart suddenly then go to far...?
 

Nobody wants that.. that's called follow-through! 

[a-ton]

so let me get this straight, 236lb/ft and a lot of farting, yes? I'm just changing my discs and pads (after replacing the hub a couple of weeks ago hence torque setting) so may as well do it right.

[Mr Skrunts]

As a matter of interest, whats the torque setting for wheel nuts.

[Elite Pete]

110nm

[Mr Skrunts]

110nm

Cheers Pete, do you happen to know what that is in old currency.

[Auto Addict]

110nm

Cheers Pete, do you happen to know what that is in old currency.

http://www.pitt.edu/~rsup/touqueconv.html

[dbug]

110nm

Cheers Pete, do you happen to know what that is in old currency.

http://www.pitt.edu/~rsup/touqueconv.html

81 ft.lbs 

[Tony H]

As a matter of interest, whats the torque setting for wheel nuts.

Approx. 450 ft/lbs if you take it to kwik crap and let one of there "fitters" attack your car with a windy gun