Is getting a right angle impact wrench worth it?

[rlitman]

Also the stupid caliber bracket bolts on the outback that are obstructed by the strut. You're not putting an impact on them and they're loctited in.

I'm too cheap to buy the special Snap On socket made for those, so I use an Astro Nano socket with a 6" wobble impact extension on my stubby impact driver. I use the impact to break the bolt loose, and then take it off with either a wrench or my fingers, because the Nano socket gets trapped by the strut nut. The Snap On shallow socket gets around that issue, but costs around $60.

And I pray it is loctited in, and I always put blue on it before I re-install. If it isn't loctited, it rusts, and when it corrodes, you're fighting the threads all the way out. When it is loctited, you just need to break the bond loose, and out it comes.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

I'm too cheap to buy the special Snap On socket made for those, so I use an Astro Nano socket with a 6" wobble impact extension on my stubby impact driver. I use the impact to break the bolt loose, and then take it off with either a wrench or my fingers, because the Nano socket gets trapped by the strut nut. The Snap On shallow socket gets around that issue, but costs around $60.

And I pray it is loctited in, and I always put blue on it before I re-install. If it isn't loctited, it rusts, and when it corrodes, you're fighting the threads all the way out. When it is loctited, you just need to break the bond loose, and out it comes.

Subaru just has a terrible design for those. The lock washer that doesn't seal the threads, location on the knuckle, etc.


Once I get them out, I use a small wire brush attachment to clean the holes the bolts pass through in the knuckle. Then I wire wheel the bolts, or even run them through a chaser if need be to remove the scale. Then I cover the shank, not the threads, in anti sieze as that's the area that they're normally frozen. Then I torque them with a torque wrench, to 65lb or whatever.

I hate fighting with those, so I decided I was gonna take the moral high road and clean/torque them everytime. If I didn't do so and just gunned them in, I'd have no right to *****. So I ***** with a clean conscience.

 

[ecotec]

Exactly where are those tight spaces? In over 50 years of playing with cars i haven't found them.

I think that building electrical transformers would be a perfect application.