Tools

[Hammerhead]

(09-25-2016 )Rawze Wrote:  Either case, the 1/2 is not going to get you through a complete tire change on the side of the road if that is what someone is thinking. If your lucky, you may get a few bolts broke loose,.. but you will still need a torque wrench to put everything back properly.

One of the guys I work with has the 3/4" Snap-On and it's the same thing, it will die before you can crack all the lug nuts. Since we also propey torque our wheels, he uses the torque wrench to "break" the lug nuts free, then uses the electric impact to R&R the lug nuts, then torque to 500ft/lbs.

(09-25-2016 )Rawze Wrote:  I do not trust impact tools at all for tightening something. You can have a good feel for how tight the impact is getting things and still, i can go behind it with an actual torque wrench and find a very large variance of under-and over torqued bolts. They just aren't reliable, I don't care how good you are with one. Tightening something by hand is way more reliable, even if you don't use a torque wrench compared to an impact gun.

That is just my own take and observations on them, Maybe others have a different experience.

I couldn't agree more! If you tighten a series of bolts with an impact and they click torque, if you used a dial torque wrench to verify you would see that the bolts range from over-torqued to way ####ing over-torqued, and everywhere in between. Hand finishing all bolts and nuts of relevance is the only way to go for me.