I was wondering do I need a torque wrench to tighten the bolk for the strut bar? Do I just tighten them as hard as possible?

 

bulk sorry, not bolk.

 

BOLT. damn i hate typos

 

they are nuts anyway, and i just tightened mine reasonably tight
not tight as you can get them but if your good with guessing torque, just estimate. get it tight, but not till your red in the face.

 

just tighten it enough so that they dont come undone and you should be fine. i always tightened them pretty tight without a torque wrench and i've never had problems, just dont tightened it enough that it breaks the stud on the struts.

 

its always a good idea to use lock tight in high stess areas to make sure it stays tight

 

Unnecessary for this application IMHO. They are easy enough to access that you can check them yourself. Use your best judgement when tightening these. I've only ever hand tightened them, no torque wrench involved, and never had an issue.

 

Sweett!

 

yeah this isnt an area where torquing in necessary >_>

 

I want to thank everyone for helping me on this. I was thinking torqueing the bolt because I read someting about torqueing the bolt, so I think its fine now since everyone had answered my question.

FC3S. the best

 

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if you over tighten the nut it may spin the stud loose. hand tighten it then give it a little tug with a standard size wrench. they are locking nuts so they wont wiggle loose. even if you had no upper nuts the strut would stay in place with the weight of the car so just tighten them enough that they wont back themselves off.