New front wheel bearings

[Mrelcocko]

I replaced the front brakes, rotors,bearings and calipers this past week. Here’s my question. When I tightened the the spindle nuts I torqued them at 70lbs and backed them off a little to put the lock nut on with the two small screws. After torquing I spun the wheel back and forth and it spun easy. When I drove it a short trip total five miles and got back to the house I noticed my front wheels were hot as hell to touch. In the FSM it says after torquing to 70 ft lbs to turn hub in both directions and then loosing spindle nut to  0 ft lbs then torque to 13 ft lbs turn wheel hub several times then torque to 13ft lbs. then check axle end play. I wasn’t able to check axle end play and didn’t loosen hub nut after I torqued it to 70 ft lbs. would this be causing my rotors and wheels to get extremely hot being it’s torqued to around 70 ft lbs? I pretty much skipped the second step. Any help would be appreciated.

[Slartibartfast]

The torque spec for the bearing lock nut is 4.3-13 inch pounds--just enough preload to get the play out of it, plus what it takes to get the screws in. Sounds like you ran yours at roughly 70x their intended torque. I've never run a bearing that tight, but yeah, I'd lay money that's your problem. 

 

I don't think I'd trust that set of wheel bearings to go again.