Torqued a bolt wrong on a 2019 F-150 last week. Big mistake.

Was swapping a lower control arm on a customer's truck. Felt the bolt get tight so I stopped. Turns out I mixed up the torque spec with the upper arm. 45 ft-lbs instead of 85. Wheel almost fell off on the test drive. Customer caught it pulling out of the lot. Had to eat the cost of a new hub and bolt. Anyone else ever mess up a torque spec and pay for it?

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danielmason18d ago

Double check everything after that. Saved my butt more than once.

oliver_wilson4918d ago

You said "saved my butt more than once" but honestly I've had the opposite experience where double checking everything actually caused more problems than it solved. @danielmason sometimes you just have to trust the process and move on otherwise you get stuck in this loop of second guessing yourself. I wasted a whole day once going back over stuff that was already fine and ended up missing a deadline because of it. Not saying verification is bad but there's a line between being careful and just spinning your wheels.