Anyone know the torque specs for the oem upper and lower skid plate on Tacoma Trd off-road?

Anyone know the torque specs for the oem upper and lower skid plate on Tacoma Trd off-road? For 2022

 

Spec sheet I've been using says 22 ft/Lb.

 

You are worrying about nothing. Snug it up and get and sleep well. If it happens to fall off, oh shit you lost some sheet metal. You’ll survive.

 

Tight. But not too tight.

 

Totally agree. In the 1960's and 1970's the only people that had a torque wrench and maybe worried about using it were pro mechanics and shop teachers. The rest of us just tightened everything to "snug". I didn't get a torque wrench until I was 50+ years as a luxury item.

 

Snug it up. Every month or so crawl underneath the truck and tighten it as necessary ... enough clearance for that.

 

I don't take offense in someone wanting to have the best understanding of a mechanical procedure, if the information is easily accessible. In the case of skid plates, yeah, probably not going to hurt anything by just doing it by feel, but there are plenty of accounts of stripped skid plate threads because "tight" means different things to different people. There are other situations (LCA, U-bolts, ball joints, nuts on lug-centric wheels) where a $50 torque wrench could help you avoid serious injury, or save you thousands in repairs after something fails at speed.

 

Front 4 bolts are 33 ft lbs 17mm bolts
Rear 2 bolts are 21 ft lbs 12mm bolts

 

I always hold a 3/8 ratchet at the neck on an item like this and use one hand and tighten . That’s how I gauge it

 

30 ft# gauge ha ha
that's where most of us self taught street mechanics hold any wrench

 

I’d be surprised even pro mechanics bother to use a torque wrench on those tiny unimportant bolts/screws.

 

If the OP has the TDR plate the 5MM Hex are 18 ft lbs.

 

This is me exactly!

 

Let's not kid ourselves. Pro mechanics give it a few ugga duggas with the impact set to "1", while cursing at not being paid for the extra time of dicking around with your skid plates.

 

22 lb ft

 

Don't kid yourself. "pro mechanics" don't do oil changes.

 

I give it 3 ugga duggas.

 

At dealers usually the oil change lanes have apprentices. At indie shops the full licensed mechanics do oil changes along with everything else.

 

At dealers oil changes are done by minimum wage laborers not apprentice mechanics. What's "indie" ? Where I live and any place I've heard and talked to people, shops don't pay licensed mechanics/techs to do simple things like oil changes, tire work etc. You can't pay someone $25-$35 an hour to do oil changes. I worked many years in trucking and tire business and that's the way it was and is.