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Slammed_Corsa
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   11th Jul 06 at 21:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Why in the hell do they persit on putting wheel nuts on with buzz guns

Went to paint my calipers today and i cant get the nuts to budge whats so ever. Dont these people have brains, what if i got a puncture somewhere, i would have been fecked. Now i will need to go to them in the morning and get them to slacken them off

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Danny H
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11th Jul 06 at 21:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Even worse when they rattle the locking nuts in.
Greg_M
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11th Jul 06 at 21:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
itd be a hell of a lot worse if they came off to easy
Dave A
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11th Jul 06 at 21:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
what are you trying to remove them with?
Chris F
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11th Jul 06 at 21:42   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
where i work we use an wheel brace and gun for larger comercial stuff, there most likly tight cos they have been talked up tp a high Newton!
Joe
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11th Jul 06 at 21:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Windy guns dont do them too tight if you just run them up, its when they rely on the gun and dont use a torque wrench they become too tight.
Chris F
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11th Jul 06 at 21:49   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
we use a torque wrench<
Jules S
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11th Jul 06 at 21:53   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by joe6886
Windy guns dont do them too tight if you just run them up, its when they rely on the gun and dont use a torque wrench they become too tight.


So they undo them with a torque wrench then

Joe
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No clearly not, obviously you use the gun to undo them. In this conversation we were dicussing over-tighting not undoing and what I said is why people end up with wheel nuts that are over tightened
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I had to change a whole set of locking nut some time back. And again, after 3 weeks, another set...I have been able to lossen the 2 rear ones, but need to go to the tyre garage for them to loosen the 2 front.

i noticed that when I tried to get my calipers painted too
Rob126
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12th Jul 06 at 08:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Greg_M
itd be a hell of a lot worse if they came off to easy


over-tightening is as bad as under-tightening! thats y u should use a torque wrench! use it all the time at work! (not on cars though... on planes)

 
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