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And go with 250 ft/lbs. plus the next hole, not 220 ft/lbs.  Experience has shown this to be prudent.  Just stand on the bar at the calculated distance from the center point with your 200 pounds (looks like 1'-3" out).  I've not found it necessary to bounce on the bar, but if you're feeling younger, so be it - one bounce, that's it.  Any more and "No Beer for YOU!"  We don't want to hear that you slipped off the bar and broke something that, at our age, won't readily grow back.

Also, add "rear hub torque check" to your growing list of Spring Maintenance items.

I also subscribe to Bruce's fear of over-torquing and potentially stripping threads or worse, but I'm either too ignorant or too lazy to look up different torques for waxed or lubed or dry fasteners (but the people at "Fastenal" know that stuff inside out).  So I always just assemble them dry, unless told otherwise, to the specified torque, more-or-less (but more for rear VW hubs).  If that was good enough for my Navy Sea-Bee uncle it was OK by me.

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