just was asking if anyone uses an impact gun to make life easy over tightening via wrench but had a feeling air tools are a bad idea on CF wheels.wut? Is there a question there?
Its a 150ft lb torque spec just like all the other mustangs.
Hand tight, no. Wrench tight to 150ft/lbs, yes. Impact guns are a huge variable and often get ugga dugga way past the torque spec, so pretty much always avoid those for tightening anything.
Torque guns of any kind are generally a bad idea even with the non-marring socket. Over time it'll wear the lug hole openings.just was asking if anyone uses an impact gun to make life easy over tightening via wrench but had a feeling air tools are a bad idea on CF wheels.
The CF wheel has a thick aluminum core in the center that goes onto the hub and is held in place by the lug nuts. Same rules of engagement as aluminum wheels. That said, and as others have already said, tighten with a torque wrench.just was asking if anyone uses an impact gun to make life easy over tightening via wrench but had a feeling air tools are a bad idea on CF wheels.
That's my process, too, for the same reasons - Impact off (mine has a setting that, once the nut is broken free, reduces torque and slowly spins them off), low setting impact spin on, torque wrench to final spec on the ground.I’ll spin lug nuts on/off with a
big electric impact tool to save some time, but always tighten with the impact to safely less than the torque spec and then finish up the last few ft lbs with a torque wrench on the ground. Taking them off I don’t bother to break them by hand, just spin them off with the impact, which saves about 20 steps in the process. Never work a hot lug nut or stud, let them cool before working them (that’s how you break them). I’ll also start the lugs by hand. Cross threading them would be bad.
i’m constantly changing sets of wheels, so safety 1st, but speed and ease is important. I’ve done well over a hundred wheel changes on my mustang, maybe 150+ by this point. Never broken a stud or nut and never had one come loose (except those two times I drove off without remembering the torque step), and I caught those before they were backed off.
Thanks, now I need to find that machine at a local shop.I loosen by hand and tighten them back on the same way, then torque each to 150ft lbs. For tire removal, Hunter Revolution is the machine you want.
A hunter touchless tire machine and someone who takes their time and cares about your wheels. That is the only way to go.Have any of you guys ever removed the tires from the CF wheels? What methods or who do you trust with the removal?