Officially on the road and a WORD OF ADVICE

[77fordbornandrasied]

Well guys thanks your help ( part number, item locations, where to buy, images and tips) I had the truck inspected today and she passed with flying colours. Spend the entire day today just driving around town and enjoying the fruits of my labour and then disaster stuck. When I had The new tires installed on the rims and bolted them up to the truck, I used my 18 volt 1/2 impact to rattle them the rims on. I had taken the tires and rim off before to get four of the same rims on the truck and rattled them on with the same impact and then rechecked them with tire wrench and they were good and tight......... Anyway i was driving down the road and started hearing a clunking , i figured maybe front u joint had given up even tho i had previously checked them. I got out checked and couldnt see anytihng wrong with the u joints then i looked at the front tires. The lugs had backed off and wore the hole just alittle. I jacked up the truck cranked em down again ( with wrench) and made sure the holes werent worn too bad. I proceeded them to check the rest of the rims the passenger side rear was nearly wore through !!!!!!!!!!!!! I jacked up truck in the rear back em off and LUCKLY i had some heavy duty washers there in the truck for god knows what reason and cranked down the lugs enough to limp the truck home. My advise to anyone is dont ever trust anything because it worked fine once before as my impact hand ALWAYS recheck by hand!!!!!!!!!!!! On a side note i was kinda excited to get my slotted rims on the truck anyway as i finished polishing those last night..... Just the fact that that tire had of came off got me thinkin about all the bad thing that could have happened to myself or others!!!!!!

 

[Fellro]

Always Always Always recheck after an impact wrench. The only way you wouldn't have to and even then I would, is with the torque sockets. Had too many times they aren't evenly tight to trust any of them. It also avoids overtightening. You can't get the torque even with an impact...

 

[77fordbornandrasied]

Like I said I always do normally, but i checked them last time I rattled them on and i couldnt get em any tighter with the tire wrench so i never bothered when i knew i should have.

 

[Fellro]

I try not to tighten them fully with the impact anyway, just because they can not get them evenly tight, or on occasion, get them too tight. I make sure that the lugs can be gotten loose on the side of the road, because you won't have an impact there... or if someone else has to do it, they need to be able to as well.

 

[nobodyspecial]

I never put lug nuts on with an impact. They are always done by hand, and then checked regularly.

 

[5.0Flareside]

i put them on with my impact driver with a socket drive tool on it and that only pushes 80 ft lbs and then i take my torque wrench to em all... 100 ft. lbs...

 

[LEB Ben]

I use the German method which is by hand until guudenteit...then after a few miles or short trips, recheck.

 

[nobodyspecial]

by hand? you must have strong fingers. I have to use a wrench.

 

[LEB Ben]

by hand? you must have strong fingers. I have to use a wrench.

Don't be so modest...

I never put lug nuts on with an impact. They are always done by hand, and then checked regularly.

 

[nobodyspecial]

by hand with wrench. i am on mobile so i miss things.

 

[Evan's f250]

I always use a 4 way.

 

[LEB Ben]

^^^I use a 1/2" ratchet, 4" extension and the appropriate socket, until guudenteit.

 

[Austin]

guudenteit.

I didn't know you speak german!!!

 

[LEB Ben]

I didn't know you speak german!!!

With my last name, what did you expect...Mandarin perhaps?????

 

[Austin]

With my last name, what did you expect...Mandarin perhaps?????

Spanish

 

[LEB Ben]

Spanish

Truth of the matter...grandfather was German, grandmother was French, other grandmother was Swedish, took 3 years of Latin in high school and 4 semesters of Spanish in college...only thing I really remember how to say in any of them is 'where's the bathroom'...but really, that's all that matters.




/Threadjack

 

[Mil1ion]

Stop by Harbor Freight and pick up a set of impact torque cracker extensions.
ALWAYS torque them to OEM Specs without an impact driver

 

[m78]

There was a couple years that ford had rims that would warp if not torqued properly, causing a vibration.
After I learned this I always have torqued since

 

[Alvin in AZ]

Always Always Always recheck after an impact wrench.

Ok, will do! Thanks!

Oh wait, I never use one of them noisy suckers and don't own one.

Uhhh... in that case, Hmmmm... never mind.

Butthead in AZ

 

[5.0Flareside]

Stop by Harbor Freight and pick up a set of impact torque cracker extensions.
ALWAYS torque them to OEM Specs without an impact driver

yep.... i honestly can say, i dont know how they work.. but they do...