Autozone carries a Great Neck brand electric impact gun rated to 220 ft/lbs. for $50 with a 1 year warranty. Usually when it comes to tools like these I’d shy away from a ‘lesser’ brand…but am thinking of picking this up. I tend to be pretty rough on my tools and am a bit worried this thing may not bea able to stand too much abuse…thoughts???
Don’t cheap out on tools unless it’s something you’ll only use once or twice and you can buy a cheap one for less than you can rent a good one.
I tend to agree with that…but a good electric impact goes for ~$150-200 from what I’ve seen and that’s just not in the budget right now. I’m pulling the engine on my SHO today and am tempted to pick this thing up, ‘test’ it out, and if it proves to be crap return it.
Not sure if it’s the same one habor freight had, but their “240 ft/lb” one wouldn’t spin the rusted lug nuts off my wife’s old car, even after I broke them loose by hand. I sat there letting it pound away until I could smell burned motor brushes then took it back for a refund.
my friend bought one form Pepboys once…it woulndt break his lugs loose…but I used a Snap-on cordless one once and it was fantastic
u have seen how big these things are right? they are only good for new lugnuts, 220 can barely take off stubburn lugnuts, i have a craftsman impact gun that came with my compressor, it was rated at like 220 or 300 reverse, and it wouldnt take lugnuts off of my audi, i then got them off with a 1 foot ratchet, 220 is almost useless
I was worried about something like this…looks like it’s go big or go home. I retract my previous statement. Hand tools in full effect today:)
While we’re here…anyone have recommendations to a strong electric impact gun?
Why are you pulling it again?
199k on it so I want to do some maintenace while I have some down time from work…doing rod bearings, belts, gaskets, valve adjustment, replacing trans with a good one, changing front motor mount, some new sensors, etc. Also, while the engine is out I can go over it with a fine tooth comb to try to find my nagging “this car is running like crap since the manual swap” problem.
The new Harbor Freight one is crap, it would only torque to 80, untoruque to 75.
The old Harbor Freight one actually worked “would break free axle/hub bolts”
The one that is always recommended it the 24v Goodyear one. I think it is availible at pepboys. I have heard good things about it, like “It spun of the crankshaft bolt off of the Miata”.
It is under $100.
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i have a 2 or 3 year old one that does a pretty decent job, was ~$45 on ebay.
i dont torque the hell out of my lug nuts though, so that could explain it.
came in handy for breaking the flywheel bolts loose.