For the people who work on their vehicles, impact wrenches…

[fuzeman]

Working on my van and my gift of a impact wrench makes the most impact when I drop it on the ground after not budging a nut. Wont even take a lug nut off at 90 ft/lbs. 
What kind do you have / had that didn't cost an arm and a leg and had working impact / torque and were satisfied with?  And my sockets are 1/2” drive.
Last one was pnewmaa, air powered but a new battery one would be more user friendly, I suppose.
Thanks for your opinions, if relevant 


Edited- I’m a marOOn,  Impact wrench   

[-gg-]

torque wrenches are used for tightening, I thought.

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[oboe]

Torque wrenches should never be used to remove nuts.  They are only for tightening.  I think you should try an impact driver?

[TryHard]

Tighten the bolt until it snaps in half then go back half a turn.

[fuzeman]

Pointing out my oopsies said the marOOn.

Impact wrench.

Take two.

[Meatwad]

Ive used a 3/4" impact before  and that didnt budge nuts. Ended up using a 3/4" breaker bar and cheater pipe to do it

[bj229r]

I see more and more mechanics use battery powered impact drivers for such things

[100Coogn]

torque wrenches are used for tightening, I thought.

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Correct.

Coogan

[nopoop]

Flame wrench.

[Elfie]

 

[fuzeman]

Ive used a 3/4" impact before  and that didnt budge nuts. Ended up using a 3/4" breaker bar and cheater pipe to do it

Yep and that’s what I’ve been doing. Last battle the Pipe Wrench beat the Leaf Spring Bolts 2-0.
I guess the impact sockets wont go to waste.

Early responses refer to torque wrench and not impact wrench as I mixed em up to begin the thread but caught it early enough to modify most of it.

[SIK1]

I have a Dewalt 1/2" 20v max that spins off the lug nuts on my truck no problem ( installed @ 125 ftlb with a torque wrench)

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[SIK1]

Just to be clear, the Dewalt impact was also able to remove the shackle bolts, eye bolts, and U-bolts on a '91 F350. I had to hammer some of them pretty hard, but the truck is thirty years old.

I bought the Dewalt specifically to do the job. I have a 1/2" drive pneumatic impact, but the little compressor I currently have can hardly keep up with it. The Dewalt with a 5 amp/hour battery was able to remove all the suspension bolts on both driver and passenger sides as well as all sixteen of the lugs nuts on a single charge. The one I have wasn't exactly cheap at somewhere around $240, plus the cost of the battery. I got the version with the hog ring anvil as they are stronger than the detent pin type.

You should always use impact sockets when using an impact tool. The more powerful impact drivers can destroy a standard socket faster than you can say whoops.

 

[GasTeddy]

Flame wrench.

How about THIS?

[Meatwad]

Just to be clear, the Dewalt impact was also able to remove the shackle bolts, eye bolts, and U-bolts on a '91 F350. I had to hammer some of them pretty hard, but the truck is thirty years old.

I bought the Dewalt specifically to do the job. I have a 1/2" drive pneumatic impact, but the little compressor I currently have can hardly keep up with it. The Dewalt with a 5 amp/hour battery was able to remove all the suspension bolts on both driver and passenger sides as well as all sixteen of the lugs nuts on a single charge. The one I have wasn't exactly cheap at somewhere around $240, plus the cost of the battery. I got the version with the hog ring anvil as they are stronger than the detent pin type.

You should always use impact sockets when using an impact tool. The more powerful impact drivers can destroy a standard socket faster than you can say whoops.

 

I can vouch for that. Cracked a cheap no name socket on a breaker bar while taking a lug nut off a tire on a utility trailer