How you remove wheel lug nuts....?
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impact driver is i am in the driveway....lug wrench if i am not in the driveway.
What a stupid question! hahaha
What a stupid question! hahaha
It's more often the user than the tool that does the damage, in my experience anyway. For you stick with the lug wrench for now.
Always start the lugs by hand, then finished with the impact. For tightening that is.
Removal is whatever's easiest.
Removal is whatever's easiest.
I use a 1/2" drive 1.5' Craftsman breaker bar with 90* angle, then put a Craftsman 21/24/2?/twenty whatever mm socket on the end of it. If it's too tough that the breaker bar wont take it off, stand on the breaker bar, it will budge.
I got pissed one time because the local ghetto-mexicans here at one of the tire shops in San Antonio impacted my tire I had patched back on the truck and I had to reform the aluminum caps that go over the lugs becuase of their dumb-asses.
I got pissed one time because the local ghetto-mexicans here at one of the tire shops in San Antonio impacted my tire I had patched back on the truck and I had to reform the aluminum caps that go over the lugs becuase of their dumb-asses.
i use 1 1/16"(i believe) on my 22" breaker bar wherever i am..its always in the truck
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On road trips I bring the socket with me, along with a 18"? Craftsman breaker bar. I also keep a 3 foot long cheater bar with me at all times. Good for breaking lugs loose or fending off Jeep people. 
1-1/16" = 1.0625"
27mm = 1.06299"
1-1/16 = 27mm + .005"
What are the manufacturing tolerances of impact sockets?
27mm = 1.06299"
1-1/16 = 27mm + .005"
What are the manufacturing tolerances of impact sockets?
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I have 2 sockets in my truck: one 1 1/16 socket and another one with the stupid lug nut caps stuck in it.
I keep a torque wrench under the rear seats with a 1 1/16 socket. Since I broke the stock lug wrench on flat change.
And for the impact?! I solved that by replacing all my lug nuts with the type that don't have the little chrome caps on them.
And for the impact?! I solved that by replacing all my lug nuts with the type that don't have the little chrome caps on them.
I've heard of these bending, but one one would have to be putting too much force on it to do so, I think. I noticed that the length is just enough leverage to replicate the proper 95 ft. lbs. of torque for the lugs. I only know this because I once tightened the lugs as much as I could turning the wrench by hand and then checked them with a torque wrench. The lug wrench had tightened them all at almost 95 each.