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Reply #15 on: March 30, 2007, 02:14:28 AM
If I was you Id invest some money in a decent trolley jack that will last, as that is a much more useful device (and I wish I had one).
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Reply #16 on: March 30, 2007, 07:13:14 AM
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By a wheelnut spider, do you mean a wheel brace like in the pic?

yeah sorry.  I think of them as spiders because the 1st ones i used where something like 12 way.
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Re:Torque wrenches
Reply #17 on: March 30, 2007, 07:38:16 AM
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If I was you Id invest some money in a decent trolley jack that will last, as that is a much more useful device (and I wish I had one).


Ive already got one, its come in handy quite a bit actually even though I thought it would gather dust  :)
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Reply #18 on: March 30, 2007, 09:09:24 AM
personally always torque my wheel nuts up with a torque wrench, 110nm involves me hanging off the wrench with my 8.5 stone and just about doing it (ok its not really that bad but it feels like it on nut number 20)

iv seen what happens when wheels fall off so always do it
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Reply #19 on: March 30, 2007, 09:17:07 AM
if you go to halfords for around a fiver you can get sockets with a nylon outer so you dont damage the seats and inserts on your spangly wheels.

halfords torque wrenches are the business. I broke one (proper swinging on it) and they swapped it out without a receipt 3 years after I bought it.

in fact most of the halfords tools are actually sykes pickavant rebadged which makes them good tools that will last.

Matt
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Reply #20 on: March 30, 2007, 11:11:08 AM
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personally always torque my wheel nuts up with a torque wrench, 110nm involves me hanging off the wrench with my 8.5 stone and just about doing it (ok its not really that bad but it feels like it on nut number 20)

iv seen what happens when wheels fall off so always do it



8.5 stones would give about 161 Nm with a one foot long handle on yer wrench :)
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