Woppum Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Around the London area. I want to possibly get a set of wheel painted green or orange, so they have to be good. I also dont want to pay the earth so any good recomendations would be apreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Also looking for a 'torque drill' for taking the wheel nuts off and on as quickly as possible. I have no idea where to look, or what they are called so as always any help much apreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Also looking for a 'torque drill' for taking the wheel nuts off and on as quickly as possible. I have no idea where to look, or what they are called so as always any help much apreciated. [/ QUOTE ] What you are after is a "Cordless Impact Wrench" like this: Here's a review of some but they aren't cheap though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritey Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 And I wouldn't advise putting wheel nuts on with one of those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Also looking for a 'torque drill' for taking the wheel nuts off and on as quickly as possible. I have no idea where to look, or what they are called so as always any help much apreciated. [/ QUOTE ] What you are after is a "Cordless Impact Wrench" like this: Here's a review of some but they aren't cheap though. [/ QUOTE ] Bloody hell that is alot of money! £555 for a bloody drill. Why!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 [ QUOTE ] And I wouldn't advise putting wheel nuts on with one of those [/ QUOTE ] Why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritey Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Because its easy to over tighten the nuts and ruin the threads/risk getting it cross threaded, much better to use a decent torque wrench to the correct torque, specially with a performance vehicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Here's some 12v ones - a lot cheaper Don't forget to get yourself a proper manual torque wrench to ensure the wheels are tightened properly. Like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Because its easy to over tighten the nuts and ruin the threads/risk getting it cross threaded, much better to use a decent torque wrench to the correct torque, specially with a performance vehicle [/ QUOTE ] What I have been told is use the drill to put on then the torque wrench to tighten, not becasue they over tighten (wouldnt they just click when they go over the torque setting?) but becasue when the batteries wear thin they dont tighten to their limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Here's some 12v ones - a lot cheaper Don't forget to get yourself a proper manual torque wrench to ensure the wheels are tightened properly. Like this: [/ QUOTE ] Chers daz This seems to be the one they recomend: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritey Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 A powered torque gun is never going to be as precise as a normal wrench unless your spending big bucks, but it sounds like you've been given advice already, all relative really depending on what people find expensive Nice TV's btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted October 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 [ QUOTE ] A powered torque gun is never going to be as precise as a normal wrench unless your spending big bucks, but it sounds like you've been given advice already, all relative really depending on what people find expensive Nice TV's btw [/ QUOTE ] haha, cheeky monkey. Another good reason why not to splash out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Woppum - This guy is London based, very good, and if you mention 'Duisberg' he won't charge the earth. Glen is the man. http://www.hotwheelzuk.co.uk/ Regarding torquing up wheel nuts, I spent 6 years of my life working for the industry leader in torque control in the automotive industry, worked on projects with Porsche, Merc, Rover, Volvo etc etc etc... In a nutshell, a manual torque wrench (ie one that goes 'click' at the desired setting) will ensure the set torque is applied as a minimum, but will almost certainly apply considerably more than you set the wrench to. It clicks when it reaches the desired torque, but you then hit a 'back stop' (to stop you losing your knuckles and/or falling over) which then applied X% more than the set value. The variance (or range of results you can expect) in this is the same as you can expect from an impact tool (like the ones shown). The spec of the bolts used is pretty good normally, so torque wrenching them (by hand) is pretty safe. Its good to insist that kwik-fit etc torque wrench the wheel nuts/bolts as it makes sure if they missed one with the impact tool you don't end up with loose nuts. Not I could really bore your b0ll0cks off with a story about the first Daewoo in the UK that we tested, that was so bad, the Engineers walked home. (Not now ? OK, another time).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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