When I bought some WallyWorld tires for MrTaurus last winter, the tire guy
put a torque limiter bar on the impact wrench, then burped the lugs down
snug with an educated finger on the throttle, making the torque bar
superfluous.
He then got out a micrometer torque wrench, torqued all twenty
On 9/23/06, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's national policy. (Like Discount Tire claims it's their national
policy, but at Discounts near me, they just run them down with impact. Even
have signs in the windows claiming we handtorque all wheels.)
I bought tires at Discount
Merc spec is 81 foot/pounds, which mine are.
The tire place I use has torque wrenches and use them.
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From: LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] How to remove tight lug
Thanks for all the input, I had mixed results and learned quite a bit from
the responses and even picked up something on my own that I was not aware
of. The lug bolt hex heads are hollow and have a plastic cap. That allowed
me to use a large punch and hammer to bang away on the bolt without a
P. D. Ferguson wrote:
I have had two sets of TireRack-purchased tires mounted
at a relatively new Super WallyWorld($7.95 per tire lifetime balance) and
watched both times as the tech used a torque wrench to tighten the lugs--the
receipt includes a print out of the torque applied.
My WW
Subject: Re: [MBZ] How to remove tight lug bolts?
Merc spec is 81 foot/pounds, which mine are.
The tire place I use has torque wrenches and use them.
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From: LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 5:17
I've had the same issue with my 300SDL and I took it down to the local tire
shop. They spun them right out with their impact wrench. Apparently, my air
powered impact wrench does not work as well as theirs does. Probably has
something to do with the $38.00 price tag.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
If you have the air tools, an impact is less likely to twist anything
you don't want twisted than a cheater bar, but if the bar is the only
thing that is going to do it, get a good long one and instead of steady
pressure, jump on it in short bursts to crack it loosethen find the
last guy
A friend of mine had a 560SEL with stuck lug bolts. A large impact
wrench eventually broke off 5 bolts. He had to drill them out. They
broke where the thinner shaft behind the hex meets the spherical
section that fits the wheel. If the last guy (a brake shop) to touch
those bolts hadn't been 800
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From: OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] How to remove tight lug bolts?
A friend of mine had
This is a serious problem with tire shops and gas stations -- those lug
bolts MUST be torqued correctly or they can bend and stick.
If the above methods do not work, and it's likely they will, here's
what you do:
Pull the center cover off and pry out the dust cap (front wheel) --
using a
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Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] How to remove tight lug bolts?
A friend of mine had a 560SEL with stuck lug bolts
Tom Hargrave wrote:
I've had the same issue with my 300SDL and I took it down to the local tire
shop. They spun them right out with their impact wrench.
Almost any shop you go into, at least one guy is going to own an IR 2131,
or its replacement, the 2131ti. The early (sub-$200) version was
Robert Tara Ludwick wrote:
Around here, none of the tire/brake shops/dealerships even know what a
torque wrench is when it comes to wheels, except surprisingly, Wal Mart
of all places. They've been stuck with the bill for so many bent wheels
and rotors that now, at least in this area, they
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