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Old 10-29-2014, 11:20 PM   #6788
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Originally Posted by pushrod View Post
A lot of those places use torque tubes. I own a few, and I can say that they're not very accurate, and they're probably using ones rated for 250ft-lb anyways.

As for stripping, that just means they zapped them on with the tool instead of hand threading to start them. I watched a friend do it after I told him not to.
Yeah, they were clearly started with the impact gun without hand-threading first.

The really sad part is that when you start them this way, you can still clearly tell they were cross-threaded as the gun struggles to tighten them, but they still rammed them all the way in and basically said F-it!

Luckily I had 4 studs on hand already, but it wasn't enough, we needed 8!
3 of the 4 wheels had bad studs.
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