Installing Wheels After Replacing Pads

Video Transcript

"MARK BLOCKER: In this segment we are covering and installing the wheel. All I need to do--I just want to lift it up, set it on your lug nuts, slide it over and just kind of hold the wheel in place. And it probably would have been a little bit easier but I always like to put a little bit of anti-seize on my studs. It would have been easier to do it with the wheel--or before I put the rim up there but it will work just the same. I just apply a little bit to the tip there and then when I run that nut down on the top, it will spread it around, give it a good, even coat. And that anti-seize just ensures that the bolt goes on smoothly. It also helps to coat the thread and this little lubricant will prevent rust build-up. It just ensures that they go on smoothly or fit tightly and the next time you go to take them off, it won't be all rusty and rusted on. It just gives it good serviceability. And then you just go around, get them all on finger-tight and run them down as far as you can by hand. And then we're going to use the star pattern, starting and going crisscross and go around and all we can do is snug them up. And we'll do the actual tightening when it's back on the ground and we can apply torque to it. And I'm just going around and snugging them down. I want a crisscrossing pattern. And as you see, I went around and checked each one of them twice. And at this point, we're just snugging them down. We'll actually torque the wheel down when it's set down to the ground. Now that we've got the wheel installed, you still have to put the dust cap on but we're going to re-torque those lug nuts when we set them on the ground so we'll wait on that. Please watch our next segment and we'll cover lowering the vehicle."