On my Sambars I have seen them so tight a 130# guy and breaker bar would not break loose.I usually just use an impact to take off and put it on by feel and gauging how tight it came off.If I recall they are a sealed bearing,so normal specs are around 60-120 ish..... All else fails put it on snug,drive for a few minutes and recheck--I have been twisting wrenches for over 20 years,and you cannot always find specs,and have to rely on what you know,or hope you know,and use what works on every other vehicle I know you were looking for a # Tripper,but this is all I got
Tks for answer. I've been having a really weird intermittant noise coming from I think the R Rear almost like a metal on metal scraping, ruled out CV as noise all wrong thought maybe the brake hardware had come apart or got a rock in the drum started to take apart and the nut wasn't much more than hand tight and the other side wasn't much better Inside looked A ok so I'm thinking with the work outs [loads ] it's been getting that maybe it was just the drum moving around on the axle collar/ nut. All tight now so we shall see if the noise is gone
is it a splined axle on there? i know on the old VW's i've seen the axle nut not tight enough and it will allow the hub to work a little bit and eventually take the splines out of the hub. on those the axle nut was something ridiculous though like 200+ ft/lbs.
Yes it is a splined axle. Outside of the drum has a taper around the bore for the axle There is a split tapered cone that fits over the axle and seats in the tapered bore. Then a regular F Washer and castle nut. The noise is now gone so........ Weird noise = Looze nuts