largest deepwell size used?

[blackz26]

Either home mechanic or diesel what's their largest size deep well you've used and actually HAD to use deepwell? I assume there a certain point that they become redundant where a shallow would do just the same.

For me iirc it was a 17mm I used to remove the tram my from my junk 3.0 Toyota. I'm a diyer

 

[ihateminimumwage]

The lugs on my 86 F350 are 1 1/16, and have to use a deep socket to get them off.
Someday I'll swap them out for some acorn nuts, but that costs money I don't feel like spending.

 

[bobcatdan]

I have up to 1 1/2" deep wells and have used them.

 

[zkling]

The lugs on my 86 F350 are 1 1/16, and have to use a deep socket to get them off.
Someday I'll swap them out for some acorn nuts, but that costs money I don't feel like spending.

1 1/16" for me as well. To get to the flywheel nut on a outboard motor. Surrounding hole is also too small for a impact socket. So it is one of the few times I will use a chrome socket on an impact.

 

[kiatech]

Ive had to use some pretty big deep sockets when doing tires on class 8 trucks with a 1 inch drive impact. so 30-40mm?

 

[maddawg1952]

axle nut sockets can be fairly deep and in some large sizes too, I'm not sure how big my biggest one is they're kind of a mismatched set I inherited from people along the way. Next time I'm in the storage trailer I'lll have to look.

 

[Zebu Fellenz]

Excluding axle nut sockets I used a 27mm deepwell socket for fuel injectors on a VW 1.6l diesel.

-Erik

 

[jmscollinsiii]

I have up to 1 1/2" deep wells and have used them.

Ditto

 

[Fireball027]

1-1/16 to remove my oil pressure switch on my jeep. Use 1-3/4 on dodge axle nuts

I have up to 1-3/4 deep at work up to 2" deep at home.

 

[jjjrmx5]

Axle nuts on German cars/vehicles can go up to 36mm and above. 36mm is my current top-out for 1/2" drive.

3/4" drive goes up to 50mm and more.

 

[mattygee]

I think for most home guys, 36mm is about tops. It is the size of many cv axle nuts.

 

[mrjaw14]

Personally I've used up to 21mm for lug nuts on my truck. I guess I could go to 32 or 36 if I have do an axle

 

[devoncoolman]

36mm and 1 9/16 deeps have up to 2 3/4 in shallows

 

[rusty65]

Biggest I've ever used is a 1 1/2 deep on a Buick century hub.

 

[bsaint]

55mm for a level pad on a 36k pound machine tool.

 

[blackz26]

Thanks for all the replies guys! Keep them coming and what you use them for!

 

[sberry]

3/4 machine bolts are common on equipment, require 1 1/8

 

[Bikes&Bowties]

A 3 foot long 1 1/8. Otherwise just a typical 1 1/4. The biggest regular socket was about 4 inches.

 

[jeremy v]

1-1/2" is the only socket (larger than 1-1/4") I own at this time in deep SAE and 27mm is the largest deep I own in Metric. I have all sockets up to 38mm (-37mm) and 1-1/2" in standard depth.

The 1-1/2" deep has been used to replace electric water heater elements and for the nut on the bottom of a 2" trailer hitch ball when the threaded shaft was too long for a shallow socket, but I could have used my combo wrench instead in that situation.

CV sockets I have only needed a couple times, and the people I have done the work for have bought them (or rented them) for me to do the work and then kept them or returned them when I was done. In the future for personal vehicles I will just look up the sizes needed for each car or trailer axle I own and buy them in advance so they are ready when needed.

Some cars don't require a deep socket at all, and some need 12pt deeps for axle nuts and I don't want to buy any more than necessary because they aren't cheap and they do take up quite a bit of space in a tool chest.

 

[marineengineer]

We have a 55mm deep socket on my ship we use on fuel pumps but its a 12000 hp engine we use a 1 in drive torque wrench to bring it to 900 nm with 2 people on the torque wrench. We even had to cut it and weld in a piece of schedule 80 pipe to lengthen it because it wasnt deep enough

 

[kams1973]

I've used my 2 3/4" deep well socket on many occasions.

 

[Hoat]

1 7/8 harley ****** sprocket nut.

 

[Kracin]

had to use 6 inch deepwell socket to take the nut off the main gear for a 200hp electric motor that drives the main, intermediate, and bull gear for ductile iron pipe casting machines.

does it count that all the forklifts used to haul the motors around were diesel?