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Originally Posted by wbrian63
Agreed - but there's a very big difference between the mass of a wheel/tire/hub assembly and the steering wheel/steering shaft. As for the FWD hub nut - you've got the hub, the shaft and all the gearing attached to the spindle - lots of rotational mass.
There has to be sufficient mass to oppose the force of the impact.
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Agreed.
In reality, there is no force that opposes the momentary impact from the wrench because the steering system has rotational play............and never comes up against anything close to a hard stop.
I'd be surprised if an impact wrench would be successful.
I wouldn't be surprised if the internal hex would be stripped from the attempted use of the impact, however.