Steel Wheel

REMOVAL - TIRE AND WHEEL ASSEMBLY (STEEL WHEEL)
1. Raise the vehicle.

CAUTION: When removing the bolt-on wheel cover, do not attempt to pry the wheel cover off the wheel. The wheel cover is retained by special wheel cover retaining nuts.

CAUTION: When removing the bolt-on wheel cover retaining nuts it is recommended that a hand wrench be used and not an impact wrench. Use of an impact wrench could result in damage to the plastic bolt-on wheel cover retaining nuts.





2. Unthread the 5 nuts attaching the wheel cover to the 5 wheel mounting nuts.
3. Grasp the wheel cover and pull it straight outward, removing the wheel cover from the wheel.





4. Remove the wheel mounting nuts from the studs.
5. Remove the tire and wheel assembly from the hub.

INSTALLATION - TIRE AND WHEEL ASSEMBLY (STEEL WHEEL)

CAUTION: Installing the wheel mounting nuts without having good metal-to-mental contact between the back of the wheel and the hub mounted brake disc or drum could cause the wheel to bind and eventually cause loosening of the wheel mounting nuts.

1. Install the tire and wheel assembly on the hub studs against the hub mounted brake disc or drum using the hub pilot as a guide.

CAUTION: When installing the tire and wheel assembly, never use oil or grease on studs or nuts.

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2. Install and lightly tighten the wheel mounting nuts (with external threads) in the proper sequence.
3. Lower the vehicle.
4. Progressively tighten the 5 wheel mounting nuts in the proper sequence until tightened to half of the specified torque. Finally, tighten the wheel mounting nuts in the proper sequence to a torque of 135 Nm (100 ft. lbs.).
5. Align the valve notch in the wheel cover with the valve stem on the wheel. Align the wheel cover retaining nuts with the externally threaded wheel mounting nuts.
6. By hand, start to thread all 5 of the wheel cover retaining nuts onto the externally threaded wheel mounted nuts.

NOTE: When tightening the wheel cover retaining nuts it is recommended that a hand wrench be used and not an impact wrench. Use of an impact wrench could result in damage to the bolt-on wheel cover retaining nuts.





7. Progressively tighten each of the wheel cover retaining nuts following the pattern shown in the figure. Repeat the tightening sequence at least one more time. If a retaining nut "jumps" a thread (slips), which is an override feature of the retaining nut, retighten all the nuts again following the proper tightening sequence to a point just prior to the thread slip occurring.