Wheel Cover: Service and Repair

REMOVAL - WHEEL COVER
1. Raise the vehicle.

CAUTION: When removing the bolt-on wheel cover, do not attempt to pry the wheel cover off the wheel.





2. Unthread and remove the 5 nuts attaching the wheel and wheel cover to the vehicle (Fig. 24).
3. Remove the wheel cover using care not to let the tire and wheel assembly fall off the vehicle.

INSTALLATION

CAUTION: Installing the wheel mounting nuts without having good metal-to-metal 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. Never use oil or grease on wheel studs or wheel mounting nuts.

1. With the tire and wheel assembly positioned on the wheel studs without the wheel mounting nuts installed, align the valve notch in the wheel cover with the valve stem on the wheel and install the wheel cover on the hub mounted studs.





2. Install and lightly tighten the wheel mounting nuts in the proper sequence (Fig. 25).
3. Lower the vehicle.
4. Progressively tighten the 5 wheel mounting nuts in the proper sequence until tightened to half of the specified torque (Fig. 25). Finally, tighten the wheel mounting nuts in the proper sequence to 135 Nm (100 ft. lbs.) torque.