Wheel Torque Extension Kit for Your Classic Car
Mark Simpson & Ross KiehlDescription
George Vondriska introduces you to the combination impact wrench and wheel torque extension, which ranges from 55 pounds of torque to 140 pounds of torque. You will learn how to get a perfectly consistent torque throughout by using a cross pattern technique.
When you're ready to get wheels back on your vehicle, it's really important that you get the lug nuts torque just right. And an impact wrench is an okay tool for this, if you've got an extra component to go with your impact wrench. We're going to talk about that in a second. So, just regarding torque, what we could do is get this on the ground. So that, that wheel is back on the concrete. Use a torque wrench in order to make sure we've got each of those lugs tightened the right amount and a consistent amount. That's really important that every one of those lugs is tightened the same. With the impact wrench, what we want to do is add this torque extension to this. So this is pretty cool. Give us the lowdown here Brent. What's about to happen. Well, what this does there's, this is the whole kit right here. And it goes from 55 pounds of torque to 140 pounds of torque and it's all determined on the diameter of the shaft itself. So what happens is when you pull the trigger on the impact hammer, it keeps, it keeps hitting that thing. And it flexes just a little bit at this one in particular is a hundred pounds of torque. So you can't over-tighten the wheels, but you'll get it up to that hundred pounds of torque. So these being color-coded in different sizes each one applies a different amount of torque. Right. You have to use these with an impact wrench. This is not a ratchet thing. It doesn't take the place of this. Doesn't take the place of this. It's got to go with an impact wrench. So go ahead and give us a lowdown. Okay, so then you, same, same as always, you know you want to do a cross pattern and you want to snug it a little bit, snug it a little bit. So you make sure the wheels are on straight and seated against the, the. And then once you get to that point now you can see it's only going to go to that point. At this point, you can just give her until it hammers Until it goes yep. And then at that point you can't exceed a hundred pounds. Right. So now we know all these are torque to exactly 100 foot pounds. And really, if you're not using these you should not be using an impact wrench to put your tires back on. You can bust the lugs off by getting too much torque on them. You can also get an inconsistent tightening pattern on the lugs themselves. So good addition to the shab. Good useful tool to have.
Stick with a torque wrench. Not worth the liability if the torque extension is off.
The best place for these extensions is leave them at the parts house. Had four new tires mounted on '03 PT Cruiser and developed a rubbing type noise that was real noticible as you pulled up to a light. Thinking that the shoes or pads were in bad shape, I started looking. The lug nuts were so tight that I had to literally jump on the end of an 18" breaker bar to loosen them. I weigh over 200 pounds. These puppies were that tight!!! Forget the "torque limiters" and stick to the torque wrench. I found the shoes and pads were in great shape, so I put the wheels back on--by hand torquing. Guess what--no more noise. The car drove and sounded like it should have, and did before the tire shop got ahold of it.
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