From: Dave Jenkins (gpw1942@bellatlantic.net)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 10:39:10 PDT
Any one know if they make an electric drive 1 inch impact gun. I have been using
a 1/2 for a while and it works well.
Dj
James Shanks wrote:
> Mark,
>
> A one inch gun will do the job without a hitch at all. A 3/4" gun
> will do the job but takes longer when putting the tires on to torque the
> wheel nuts correctly, not near enough cookies as a one inch gun by
> comparison. You need to use a 3/4 inch air line from your air reservoir to
> the impact gun to get full power from the gun. Air line smaller than 3/4
> inch? Your gun will NOT develop it's full power as the half inch air line
> can't carry the air volume required. Couple of more bucks to upgrade to a
> one inch gun. You will not be sorry.
> #/4 and one inch guns require generally around 15 to 25 cubic feet
> per minute at a minimum of 100 PSI to operate at full power with 3/4 inch
> air lines. You can operate off your trucks air reservoirs but there is a
> safer method. Pick up a used mounted on wheels air compressor gasoline
> driven with a blown engine or no engine shouldn't cost ya more than 5 or 10
> bucks, and add the required fittings that allow you to hook up with a truck
> galdhand, make sure it is the Emergency fitting not the service. Purchase a
> gladhand inflator at a truckstop that allows you to hookup to the emergency
> trailer fitting at the back of the truck to the now new style portable air
> supply for your wheel gun. NOTE: the air compressor on the M-35/54 series
> is only around 8 cubic feet of air per minute at 2600 RPM, about 4 or 5
> idling at 1000 RPM but this is more than enough when you consider your
> portable surge tank holds four to five times the volume of air the truck
> tanks do. When the air compressor on the truck kicks off at it's set
> pressure with the portable hooked up and the valves open you have enough
> air to take off one wheel. You know as well as I do when you ready to
> tighten up the nuts your air will be back. Not quite as fast as a tire shop
> trucks air compressor but a good deal cheaper.
>
> Oh yeah, for those with weak (?) backs you can buy air powered
> bottle or wheel mounted jacks too. Puts em up in a hurry without the right
> arm getting bigger than it needs to.
>
> At 03:38 PM 4/7/2003 -0400, Bobby Joe Pendleton II wrote:
> >I use a 1 inch drive for my M211 does good. I was told that a 3/4 inch will
> >do it.
> >Bobby Joe Pendleton II
> >MVPA #17657
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Mark Ehle" <markehle@hotmail.com>
> >To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:18 PM
> >Subject: [MV] 1" or 3/4" impact Wrench?
> >
> >
> > > Folks -
> > >
> > > I have discovered that my wimpy 1/2" impact wrench does not have a prayer
> > > against my M35's wheel lug nuts.
> > >
> > > Do I need to get a 1" impact wrench, or will a 3/4" model do?
> > >
> > > Thanks -
> > >
> > > Mark Ehle
> ><SNIP!>
>
> James Shanks
> n1vbn@bit-net.com
> 1998 IMZ 8.103
> 1984 H-D FLHT-C
>
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