Specifications

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Practical hints
Flat tire
5
For wheels with wheel nuts:
 Center the wheel nut cover over the
wheel and push it onto the wheel.
 Screw on the wheel nuts and tighten
them finger tight.
Lowering the vehicle

Slowly open the jack’s pressure re-
lease screw one turn using the pump
lever (
 page 550) and lower the ve-
hicle slowly.
 Put the jack to one side.
Tightening torque pattern
1
– 6 Wheel bolts
 Tighten all the wheel bolts and wheel
nuts evenly in the sequence indicat-
ed.
As an extension for the wheel
wrench, use the shaft from the jack’s
3-part pump lever that has the larg-
est diameter.
 For wheels with wheel bolts attach
the wheel cover.
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Screw on the three wheel nuts that
hold the wheel nut cover first.
!CAUTION
The tightening torque is:
 for wheel bolts 177 lb-ft
(240 Nm) (steel wheel)/133 lb-ft
(180 Nm) (light-alloy wheel).
 for wheel nuts 133 lb-ft (180 Nm)
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