Interesting thread. I had trouble removing a stuck caliper bolt on an Astra recently and resorted to several applications with a blow torch and hammering on a wrench to get the bolt free. As with Jez, the bolt was on the inside arch area so getting any leverage on a breaker bar was virtually impossible. For £25 that Clarke wrench sounds like excellent value for money and would have saved me a couple of hours work!
Impact Wrench
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I use a spare battery that I have in the garage - its too knackered to start the car but it works fine for cracking bolts off.
The best think I used it for was the caliper bracket bolts, they are an inch from the hub on the backside of the brake disc with maybe 5 degrees of movement for a ratchet/breaker bar and they are done up to something like 130nm+. Absolutely no room at all for a breaker bar but just enough to get the impact wrench in and crack them off.
It depends what you are going to be doing with it, I wouldn't fancy the 12v to crack off the crank pulley on my car or the flywheel so if you are doing a cambelt or flywheel then go for the more expensive one.
I can't find the Clarke CIR-13 on sale anywhere
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cir13c-1-2in-impact-wrench-kit-12v
ive used that 12v job to get off every flywheel ive done. flywheels are annoying as obviously the engine will turn over. with the little gun you just shock the bolts. obviously it wont do big bolts (crank bolt on the 928 was 290nm and had been there for decades..)
lol my search skills must have abandoned me, many thanks
you cant search for it on the site, had to google a car forum that i found with the link for it lol
Halfrods have a SIP kit for £70, anyone had experience with one of these air guns? Their website quotes up to 320 lb/ft of torque, but of course there will also be the piping diameter + length from the compressor and the compressor specs to consider.
I'm going to rebush my suspension later this summer, so would something like one of these guns be able to take apart 12yr old suspension with some tough bolts?
Not had much exxperience tbh, plus it's my birthday in a few days so can request this kit to play with
I'm going to rebush my suspension later this summer, so would something like one of these guns be able to take apart 12yr old suspension with some tough bolts?
Not had much exxperience tbh, plus it's my birthday in a few days so can request this kit to play with
the 12v from machine mart, how well does it to tightening bolts up? would you still have to hand tighten with a wrench?
i.e wheel nuts
I think the point is that it's not possible for a breaker bar to be used in tight spaces. I agree with using a proper 6-sided socket, those other 'universal' types are horrible and IME end up rounding off the nut head.