Spline drive lug nut socket
I just bought a battery impact to change wheels quicker, and I'm wondering if there exists a socket that will attach to my battery impact easier than the one that came with the lug nuts. They are the tuner-style spline nuts, and the stupid socket that came with them only has the hex on the outside to fit into a lug wrench, it doesn't have any kind of square hole. The best option would be one that went directly into the hex-hole on the impact, but that seems even less likely to exist.
Any ideas oh experts? |
Make one?
Either find someone with machine tools or a welder. :D Thats a great idea though |
buy a cheap socket and some epoxy?
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Cheap socket and a welder. I cut mine off and welded a short extension to it. It has worked great for 4 years now.
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I have a set of McGard splined lugnuts and I believe they came with a warning not to use the socket in an impact wrench. I have no idea what the failure rate is on them, but the socket is fairly thin-walled so I could see it being a bit fragile. I have used it in a drill though to speed up the majority of the threading (except for the initial loosening and final torquing). Drill chuck-to-1/2" drive adapter into a 21mm socket that holds the splined socket.
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Originally Posted by ScottFW
(Post 738911)
I have a set of McGard splined lugnuts and I believe they came with a warning not to use the socket in an impact wrench. I have no idea what the failure rate is on them, but the socket is fairly thin-walled so I could see it being a bit fragile. I have used it in a drill though to speed up the majority of the threading (except for the initial loosening and final torquing). Drill chuck-to-1/2" drive adapter into a 21mm socket that holds the splined socket.
It sounds like my only option is to find somebody who can weld something simple like that. |
It's too hard to put a 3/4" socket on your impact drill, then leave your spline socket in there? Use them nifty thumb thingys to hold it on. You know, the one you have on each hand.
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Originally Posted by curly
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It's too hard to put a 3/4" socket on your impact drill, then leave your spline socket in there? Use them nifty thumb thingys to hold it on. You know, the one you have on each hand.
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Send me the sockets and I'll weld them for you for free less the shipping back to you, $5 flat rate box? Lemme know.
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btw, you probably wont want to use the impact to break the cheapy spline drive nuts loose.
those adapters are known to break pretty easily. |
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