Lug nut torque

Here is the deal. I had two studs strip on me last saturday. I had to dremmel them off with the wheel on. Not fun. So I put new studs in and had the tack welded from the back side of the hub. I bought a pack of four new crager lug nuts at summit racing. I'm putting them on and on nut stripped and another snapped all together. I was using my torque wrench set at 60ftlbs. So after I removed the wheel and broken lug nut sleeve I reset my wrench to 50. I'll check my wrench to see if it's messed up but I doubt it. I t is a craftsman and was given to me brand new as a gift. Hasn't been used much at all. What gives? This has been an huge ordeal over just pilling a wheel off. SBP 7/16 studs.


Be sure to to store your craftsman wrench with the torque setting backed off to less than ~20% of it's maximum setting.