Electric Tire Gun vs. AIR

[shanedottie]

A real test would be grabbing a torque wrench and seeing if the Milwaukee got it tight enough

[ChevyDex]

I always wondered what Jiffy Lube used on my oil drain plug 😂😂 thanks for sharing

[djg]

Electric for Roadside Service so you don’t have to carry a giant compressor on the truck

[dannyh]

This is the kid that strips out your lugs at the tire shop.

[elebeu]

"What are we doin', Justin?"... over torquin' these dag gum wheel studs.

[Airgunfunrich]

Now go round with a torque wrench, oh “ it clicks” cos it’s too tight…

[havingfun]

I’ve changed many tires on 50 ton rock trucks in underground mining and have done all of them the last 5 years with 3/4” Milwaukee impact and reached 500 ft/lbs on all 50 nuts with ease.

[zacksrandomprojects]

Nobody cares how well it puts the nuts on, they care how well they take them off.

[adamhorton]

Typically the 1 inch impact guns overtighten the nuts. Everyone just uses them cause that's what has always been used, and you just run that bitch down till it doesn't spin. It never comes off and never strips the stud, so just we run it. Milwaukee probably did a fine job.

[markk]

Didn't sound like the electric was on high. I've used that milwaukee many of times and his one sounded wrong

[CUBEoneVX]

battery impact drivers have more torque loosening than tightening so that you dont break stuff.

[loganroberge]

We use this same gun at work for scoop and haul truck tires underground. Lots of power and no air lines makes on the fly work much easier . I’ve upgraded all my air tools to electric for this reason 😊

[jessharper]

“Better give ‘em a double whack” I heard Discount Tire was hiring again and they want you back

[ImStormX]

Electric always beats air buddy. Without electric, you don’t have air.

[jasongrundahl]

Nothing like over torquing your lugs!

[TheFringes.]

I don't know anything about semis - Isn't there a torque sequence for tightening those lugs in order? Or even a torque spec?

[happydays]

I always tighten till I see small cracks forming between the lugnut holes, then back it off a 1/4 turn. Alcoa sells a lot of rims that way.

[shotgunsherman]

I'm a fleet mechanic, I been trying taking the lugs off with my DeWalt 1/2 impact, but I put them back on with the air gun, less time I gotta run the compressor in my service van.

[SC_XOLOs]

Milwaukee torqued it to 550lbs. The air torqued it to 700 +- 100lbs

[nuggetwv]

So did the electric torque it to 500 ft lb? The world may never know.