QuerqueRX

Hi forum!

Brand new poster, and newish owner of a 4th gen RX. Did a whole bunch of digging and wasn't able to find the specs for a lot of the maintenance items that I do on my vehicles, and figured that getting them all together with info from a few days of TIS would be helpful to someone other than me.

Look forward to being able to contribute more as I do more!

jcg0324

Nice chart and useful information all in one place. Did you happen to get the torque for the drive shaft bolts?

QuerqueRX

Driveshaft or prop shaft? I think I have those handy, I tried to get everything that I could see myself needing to do in the future.

jcg0324

My manual says "Re-torque nuts and bolts of drive shaft (AWD)" every 18 months or 15,000 miles.

Lexspeed

After owning two high mileage AWD RAVA4s and a 1999 AWD RX300 with a 180k on the clock and checking those bolts as required, i think its a waste of time. Never were any of them at any time loose or needed TQed. But, if i don't check them, that will be the time they loosen up.

jcg0324

After numerous searches for torque specs for my drive shaft bolts and nuts I could only find the Lexus NX model numbers. I am not running out tomorrow morning to do the torqueing. Does anybody have these numbers?
Not that concerned about it just want to know. The OP said he would get back but never did.

QuerqueRX

Totally forgot until I got the email about this reply. My bad.

6 hex heads: 21 lbft
4 nuts on bolts on the actual shaft and bolts to rear diff: 54 lbft
Carrier brackets: 27 lbft

jcg0324

OK ............... got it