Wheel bolt tightness.

[Sailorman]

I have a Bailey Olympus 462 (2010) in the instructions the bolt tightness is shown as 110 NM, I have had it serviced and the technician showed on his report that he had tightened the bolts to 130 NM. I commented on this and his reply was that the current recommendation from manufacturers was for between 120 to 130 NM . The instruction book states that it is as dangerous to over tighten the bolts as to under tighten them. Does anyone know whether the recommendation has been changed.

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Sorry can't help.

Personally I always insist on using my own torque wrench and doing the final tightening of the wheel bolts myself.

 

[otherclive]

There was a spate of Bailey wheels falling off. Bailey introduced a new wheel bolt, WSL with a defined torque. My Swift was 130nm on alloys and 110nm on steel wheel. It was a 2011 caravan and its handbook had an amendment label on front cover and a couple inside. I would check with Bailey. Some owners fitted WSL fasteners anyway as they are superior to standard ones. Does yours have them?

 

[Martin_E]

The Olympus, Orion and Pegasus ll up to 2013 should be 120Nm 2013 the WSL wheel bolts were introduced and are 130Nm