Are you "computer" Paul?   
      
   If so, thanks for your advice in that newsgroup, and glad to see you away from   
   the IT room,   
   lol and out in the garage! :)   
      
   Still waiting on some thought about my concern regarding lugnuts and other   
   fasteners that   
   were previously overtorqued - for months or even years - and were later   
   retorqued to   
   approximately specified torque.   
      
   Were/are they permanently 'plasticized' or otherwised strained(distorted) from   
   being improperly   
   torqued for so long, and if so, will they loosen more readily now, down at   
   specified tightening?   
   And... has damage been done to the surfaces they mated against?   
      
   Or am I just overthinking this, as I do most mechanical matters? lol   
      
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