The first step in attaching a wheel to a vehicle is to start the hardware by hand, making sure the bolts go on smoothly and evenly. After that, an impact wrench fitted with an impact torque stick can ...

Impact wrenches are pretty simple tools, and most of us use them every time we step foot in the garage. Often on a daily basis. But they aren’t so simple that you can hand them to a total novice ...

Q. When they rotate my wheels, they use a “torque stick” attached to an impact wrench and tell me that I have been tightened to 100 foot-pounds. If I try to remove a nut with a cross wrench, I can’t ...

Q. What is the difference between a torque stick and a torque wrench? Are the bending beam torque wrenches fairly accurate? Q.G., Naperville A. Torque sticks look like extensions placed between the ...

Milwaukee Tool’s M18 Fuel ½-inch Extendable Anvil Controlled Torque Impact Wrench with One-Key is engineered to provide controlled torque output for fastening and up to 1,100 ft.-lbs. of nut-busting ...

Technicians receive a lot of training to ensure that truck wheels are properly attached, but myths about tools and installation procedures still have a way of getting around. (Isn’t an impact gun good ...