Do you use a wheel gun/impact wrench?

[fifgo]

Hi all,

I am currently undertaking a project regarding wheel guns and would like your help. I previously posted a survey to this forum and some of the community answered which was a great help and so I thank you for that.

Below is a link to a quicker survey with some multiple choice questions, it would help me a lot if you could take 1 minute of your time to answer it if you have any exposure to using wheel guns/ impact wrenches.

Thank you in advance

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WNVPXJK


Also if anybody has experience using these in a motorsport environment I would be really interested to hear from you about what you feel the biggest drawback of this system is?

Thank you

[t400ble]

Tried but won't work on my phone

Drop down menus play it up

I think a question on what type of gun you have would be a good idea

[teamHOLDENracing]

fifgo said:

Also if anybody has experience using these in a motorsport environment I would be really interested to hear from you about what you feel the biggest drawback of this system is?

Thank you

You need a pretty good quality, high torque cordless gun for motorsport - nothing worse than trying to remove wheel nuts with a gun that doesn't have enough torque.

One drawback is how easy it is to cross thread wheel nuts. We always do the first turn or two by hand rather than whizz them on with the gun. Unless it's a real emergency in a race....

That said, what are the options? Hand tools?

[IanUAE]

teamHOLDENracing said:

You need a pretty good quality, high torque cordless gun for motorsport - nothing worse than trying to remove wheel nuts with a gun that doesn't have enough torque.

One drawback is how easy it is to cross thread wheel nuts. We always do the first turn or two by hand rather than whizz them on with the gun. Unless it's a real emergency in a race....

That said, what are the options? Hand tools?

+1. We race in the Creventic 24hr event and use battery powered "rattle" guns (we have 5 stud wheels) to whip the wheel nuts off. To save cross threading we also do 1 or 2 turns by hand then use the gun to put the wheel nuts on fully. To be safe, we torque the wheel nuts before letting the car back on track.

With a previous team, one of the mechanics had a Piaoli air powered wheel gun that he had calibrated for the required wheel nut torque setting.

[shirt]

bullet tipped studs and ARP speed nuts takes care of cross threading and jamming.

for endurance racing you can torque the studs before the drivers have had time to change places. for sprints a good torque gun will last.any big money team will be using centre locks and uber expensive calibrated air guns.

i guess an indication of what torque had been applied would be handy, or at least set a lower limit and a light comes on when reached. this would allow confidence to those changing wheels in sprint events.


outside of changing wheels i just want a ton of torque and a good battery life. would be handy to have a high torque right angle gun for those of us without air tools.