Mike if I were you I'd just buy a long grolly bar and be done. A bit of exercise is good for us!

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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!

Iwrock - second the question; were you asking about impact drivers or impact wrenches?

That said, are you guys using impact drivers to remove bolts? Had never considered doing that.

I have a MATCO that does 700 ft-lbs torque. I bought it after asking the local indie what he used.. " Just buy MATCO" he said, " and you never need another one." This and my Goodyear 24V are my go-to impacts.


As it turned out, it was great but when I had to use a 220V Makita 1024 ft-lbs two hander impact with 1" drive to take apart a bulldozer chassis, I fell in love, lol.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Hah! Twenty years ago I would have agreed with you. Now, when I have to use a breaker bar and I hear the "pop" of the lug breaking loose, I have to check whether it was the lug breaking loose or my creaky old bones!

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I have one of these. It is easy to slip into your pocket when wandering around in a wrecking yard.

And it will keep your energy level up. When you get past the age of 75 you start to think about such things.

Agreed, that's what the Goodyear 24V is for. Compact and as powerful as the Milwaukee, but lower price.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Tell me about it.

I have been reliably told, however, it is most certainly a case of "use it or lose it". So deep breath - bend - and - stretch - and clench and wrench!

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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!

I asked an old smithie to make a breaker bar for me from an old axle, its a two piece thing where the square drive has a hole for the bar to slide into. It can break loose quite a lot of stuff.

a freind of mine has a milwaukee fuel m18 impact.

that thing can go upto 1100 lb/ft in loosening when you crank it to "stupid mode" - and its cordless.

my oldschool bar can do that too - but to be honest an axle becomes heavy quick when doing lots of such bolts/nuts.

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1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

Impact driver - the kind with a 1/4" hex chuck.

I used a Dewalt impact driver belonging to a friend to "speed" along some suspension work, which is why I'm pretty interested in one now. The Dewalt was small and light, but at $150 it's a little more than I want to spend. While it wasn't able to break every single bolt loose (was a no-go on the big pinch bolts/control arm bolts), it was strong enough to break everything else loose!

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91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

Not entirely sure how it stacks up to the competition but I like the Rigid Gen 5x impact driver I have. It isn't the brushless model. The videos I have seen recommend using the 4 ah battery vs the smaller ones, not sure what the kit comes with if you just buy the impact but my set (drill, impact, light, circular saw, and recip saw) came with two of the 4 ah batteries. It has three power settings, very helpful for when you want to be gentle.

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Current: 1975 450SEL, 83 300D, 88 Yugo GVX, 90 300D OM603 swap, 91 F150 4.6 4v swap, 93 190E Sportline LE 3.0L M104 swap, 93 190E Sportline LE Megasquirt, 03 Sprinter, 06 E500 4Matic wagon.

I was also wondering about the description because a drill Motor with a hammering feature is something you would use with masonry bits to drill into concrete or? I don't know where that would be useful on a vehicle.

This might be off the subject slightly for years I have used the Harbor Freight 1/2" drive 12 volt impact wrenches that are made mainly for removing wheel bolts or lug nuts. However it develops enough torque to remove a Crankshaft bolt that was torqued to 240 Foot Pounds. They work almost as well as a pneumatic one.

I am supposed to have one in each Car if I remember to put it back in the trunk.

Of course it has a cord that plugs into the Cars cigarette lighter socket and the older ones also had a socket with clips for the batter. So the cord adds some incontinence and reduces portability unless you have an extra Car Battery.

I have a single extension cord I made for use at nome.

They slower then the pneumatic impacts. When you press the switch you here the Motor wirring as it build up speed and than you get a rap again followed by wirring as it build up speed repeated till the item loosens or tightens.

If you use it for what it is made for and don't bury it in the trunk where you have to hunt for it makes tire changing faster and safer because the time you are on the side of the road is reduced.
It really seeds up tire rotation day.

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+1 for Ridgid. My impact driver is great for driving bolts and pulling lug nuts.

I asked the tool repair guy which brand he had come back the least, he said Ridgid so that's what I bought.

In addition, it comes with a lifetime warranty on everything...... including the batteries. Make sure you register it to get your warranty.