Need Help with Lugs

[sygfrid]

Gorilla may be inexpensive but they are durable. They have a wide selection of lugs too but not as fancy as Project Kics. IMO, I like Gorilla more than McGard. For any aluminum lugs, always hand-torque & never use impact gun to avoid over-torquing and snapping since they are softer than steel. Steel ones like the OEM's can handle impact gun.

Standard lug torque for FT86 is 89 ft-lbs when using the factory lugs & on factory studs. My veteran mechanic eases it down to around 84-86 ft-lbs when using aluminum lugs, or even the oem lugs, on the stock studs since the latter is quite brittle too (I bought 4 sets of ARP's 2 yrs ago when they were still a bit cheaper but we're waiting for my rotors to be replaced to save on time & cost). He said that the factory-spec torque is only applicable when the vehicle (and the tread) is quite new. As it wears down, torquing should be adjusted as well. BUT, if you have the ARP studs, you wont't have to worry about it failing.