If so, what did you buy and has it been useful? For what?

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85SD 240K & stopped counting painted, putting bac together. 84SD 180,000. sold to a neighbor and member here but I forget his handle. The 84 is much improved from when I had it. 85TD beginning to repair to DD status. Lots of stuff to do.

I bought one to get more torque from my torque wrench, but it was unwieldy and I only used it once.

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"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Got a pic? What does it look like?

I use to work for the state of Calif on the State Hwy`s. We got this large John Deere tractor
with an arm off the side like a back Hoe arm. Had a Large Rotary Mower head
with two thick blades. We had to torque them down to something like 900ft lbs
every xx hours of use. Might have been higher, too many
yrs ago.

The Multiplier was a huge thing and heavy as I remember.

Too large for MB uses.


Charlie


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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works

The one we used looked something like this one, but much larger.





Charlie


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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works

There's a torque multiplier that I keep telling myself I will get into, but I just never get around to it. It is free, though. It looks like this:



In all seriousness, though, I wonder if you'd be better served by air tools. Those things can deliver some serious kick at relatively low cost and durability.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Yeah, the stator in the torque convertor of my sister's Scion does a good job of multiplying torque.

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'85 190D 2.2 Auto *Cali* (Blue/Blue) *sold*
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I have an old fashioned torque multiplier. It is a six foot length of 2" stainless pipe which just fits over the 3 foot arm of my 1 inch drive breaker bar. Nothing has survived it yet. But the energy release of some recalcitrant things is astounding. I was busting the bolts free on some some old truck spring packs when a bud happened to visit ... I let him have a go at it and when the U bold snapped he almost soiled his pants - very loud

I used a 3/8" mac 6" model to increase the arm of leverage for the torque wrench I used. I measured out, and calculated the increase in actual torque, and realized I'd need a full foot to alter it enough to use on suspension hardware, so I ended up just buying a larger range TW...

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Good gosh... That combo will certainly loosen nearly any automotive fasteners... Maybe not the block heater plug... But pretty much anything else...

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Since the question is specific about bought, I bought something like this at Harbor Freight -



It sits in the 8-lug Suburban waiting for the day the lug wrench doesn't cut it.

There are similar tools available for aircooled VW flywheel gland nuts and axle stub nuts.

Sixto
83 300SD

I bought one to pull off tires on my motorhome at >= 350 foot pounds of torque. It is a X-4 LW-750. Although a major PITA, I believe I could change a tire if I find myself in need in the middle of nowhere. I was able to crack one of the lug nuts with it. Aside from that, I've not used it for a job yet.

Dkr.

I got one but I haven't used it for ages - I don't trust it - I tend to go for the longer lever approach in life!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

It might come in handy for doing the rear wheel bearings. I used the longer bar approach for mine.

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84 300SD 350K+ miles ( Blue Belle )

I don't see much use for one of these in a shop, the only use case I can think of would be side-of-the-road repairs and PNP runs. If your wheel bolts are on so tight that you have to use that much torque you'll be lucky if they aren't stripped and stretched anyways. A good air impact will hit over 300 ft lbs of fully rotational torque (as opposed to a breaker bar which is somewhat directional away from the nut.


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- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

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