I'm just curious if I could have caused any damage. I'm used to putting on my wheels with a torque wrench set a 100 ft/lbs. Now I found out torque spec is 72 +/- 7lbs. Would I have caused damage to anything with the extra torque?

 

If you over torque a wheel, you can strip a lug nut, stretch or break a wheel stud, and cause the wheel, brake rotor and/or brake drum to distort.

When installing new wheels you should re-torque them after traveling the first 50 to 100 miles. This is necessary because as the wheels are “breaking in” they may compress slightly allowing their lugs to lose some of their torque.

 

Neal gave you the "safe" answer, and everything he said is correct. That being said, I think it's very unlikely that you damaged anything by hand torquing to 100 ft-lbs.

Or more to the point, if you had damaged something by overtorquing, you'd probably know it by now.

 

I did this a month ago, and everything seems perfectly fine. So I guess I'm OK. Thanks for the replies

 

I disagree with the break in statement. Wheels do NOT compress. What happens is that the seating area is typically painted or coated, and this area tends to flake off, especially on road courses due to the extreme heat and load. This is especially dangerous on wheels like the Kosei K1's.

I've had 3 sets of K1's, and all of them behave the same. Same goes for other racers that I know. This is pretty much going to be true for any painted wheel.

Warren