Outer Limits 4x4 Board

you can get actual wheel nut torsion bars for rattle guns instead of a regular socket...not many shops have them tho

I just had the tyres on my Rangie rotated, balanced and a wheel alignment and the bastards used a ratte gun

Not happy, I paid my money and soon as I got home I loosened them off and re-tensioned them to the specific torque (75 ft/lbs as per tyhe worshop manual).

Dunno about other 4WD's, but LR insist that you torque the nuts up with a tension wrench.

Trav

Procomp recently fitted my new set of Simex and they used a rattle gun on the lowest setting then went round and used a torque wrench on every nut. They also put anti-seize on every stud!

I have been to another tyre place before and they did over torque the nuts, so it's a case of who knows what they're doing I guess.

I while ago i rotated my tyres ,wheel nuts up so freaking tight i ended up using a star wheel brace,place a jack under one side then had to jump on other side,twisted wheel brace and after 1/2 day ended up getting all nuts un done.

I have also taken back my mums car to the dealer after she got a new set of tyres fitted,i couldnt undo the nuts so how was she going to if she got a flat 1/2 way betwwen Newcastle and Narrabri . Tyre service didnt want to do this until i started making some noise,manager came out,when he couldnt undo it ,we had 4 people working

<engineer's hat on>

When the nut is over torqued (rattle gun) it stretches the thread and can pull the bolt past its elastic limit. Failure can occur rapidly and catastrophically. If the wheel comes off and causes a fatality, over tensioned bolts are fairly easily spotted. Guess where the investigation is going to be focused, particulary if the wheels have been off recently.

<engineer's hat off>

I've handed my wheel brace to the shop boy and told him to undo the nuts. With a $%^^%$ up back, the last thing I need to be doing is swinging of a length of pipe

bogged wrote:Problem solved...

thanks to evil_hitman and blkmav for offers of compressors and rattle guns..

nutha mate came over who I thought was just bringin breaker bar and gas torch..

he brought compressor, rattle gun, and dozen UDL's...

***** havent started packin other crap, and have missed the bottlo :( Looks like Woods Pt Pub for grog tomorrow night..


Thanks again to all ...

ps.. have to burn some CDs yet
scored 8,000+ MP3's yesterday

http://www.geocities.com/boggedtothescrotum/mp3.html

Was it cross threaded? or just bloody tight???