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Harbor Freight has their 1/2" electric impact wrench on sale for $36.99. There's also a 15% off any single item on the flyer they sent me, so I think I'm gonna go pick it up. Do I need to buy impact sockets to use with it? I do have a set of Craftsman sockets that would be replaced for free should anything happen to them.
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Mar 20, 2008 23:54
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Okay, is there a secret to using torque sticks? After reading this thread and learning such things existed, I thought, "gently caress tightening all of these lug bolts by hand, I'm gonna buy some tools!" Well with no room for a big rear end compressor, I picked up the HF electric impact wrench, set of impact sockets, but I went with the Snap On torque stick as that seemed to be the important part of the equation. So I decided to bleed my brakes this weekend and try out the new goodies and wow, this is so much easier. I just pull the trigger until the bolt quits turning and I'm good to go! Until this afternoon, when I notice a noise coming from one of my wheels that is varying with my speed. All of the bolts on one wheel were loose. Luckily I got everything tightened up before my wheel fell off. Anyway, I have an E36, the Bentley manual calls for 74 ft lb on the lug bolts and I have an 80 ft lb torque stick. Should be good right? I hand tightened the bolts and then tighted them up in a star pattern (5 lugs). What am I doing wrong?
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Apr 8, 2008 03:58
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oxbrain posted:Torque sticks aren't that accurate. But I sprung for the quality Snap-On stick instead of the cheap HF stuff! I guess I'll still have to use the torque wrench to finish off all the bolts.
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Apr 9, 2008 02:59
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Pissingintowind posted:Seems like Sears/Craftsman is better, unless someone has had a bad experience with them: This is the exact same jack and jack stands I bought when I first started working on my car. The jack is okay and I still use it. Those jack stands are a pile of crap and seem very unsafe to work under, even when they are only supporting my fairly small 318ti. They have been replaced by much beefier and just as cheap HF jack stands.
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Apr 19, 2008 23:14
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