Safety Tech Tips - Wheel Torque

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emayer wrote:

I envision a Flinstone scenario here whereby the wheel stays put and the car flips onto its roof!

Thinking that the day will come where it'll be necessary to perform this trackside, I took off one wheel. It required checking the manual and rennlist for advice, recruiting my brother who laughed at me the whole time, and much cursing in English and German (happens when I'm REALLY pissed!) to get the job done. There should be a bench-press or curling minimum before they sell you the car.

This is typical German engineering. To add insult to injury, Porsche conveniently sells a torque multiplier wrench which must be honed from unobtanium as it costs a fortune! Uh Oh. I'm starting to curse in German again....

Eric, don't get frustrated........... for less than the price of the wrench, go to Home depot, buy a cheap air compressor and hose. Then stop on your way home at Habor Freight, off Germantown Pike and get a 300# impact gun and the corresponding socket head for your wheel single lug nut. Pretty soon you be able to do your wheels like those monkeys in F-1..... Oh! do the process in reverse, the cfm of the compressor must be more than what the impact gun requires.:dude: