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expired Posted by Rokket | Staff • Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025 4:05 AM
CRAFTSMAN V20 Variable Speed 1/2" Drive Cordless Impact Wrench w/ Battery & Charger $130 + Free Shipping
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I use a 3/4" breaker bar + steel pipe + heat for stubborn stuffs. It's 100% effective and only 1/10 the price of my 650 ft-lbs air IR impact wrench. You'll need an adaptor if you have 1/2" sockets.
https://www.harborfreig
https://www.harborfreig
https://www.harborfreig
I use a 3/4" breaker bar + steel pipe + heat for stubborn stuffs. It's 100% effective and only 1/10 the price of my 650 ft-lbs air IR impact wrench. You'll need an adaptor if you have 1/2" sockets.
https://www.harborfreig
https://www.harborfreig
https://www.harborfreig
I just did a wheel bearing job and everything you said is spot on. 👏🏽👏🏽
To create a good tool kit for your garage: wish somebody would create a list of tools that you need for DIY automotive work off your driveway. The challenges that you end up with so many duplicate wrenches bolts and sockets, but can never find the right ones when you need it.
Would like to hear some ideas on organization to keep your tools in the garage as well as a good toolkit that does not overlap but can be used both for automotive as well as home use
craftsman is garbage... get the makita
To create a good tool kit for your garage: wish somebody would create a list of tools that you need for DIY automotive work off your driveway. The challenges that you end up with so many duplicate wrenches bolts and sockets, but can never find the right ones when you need it.
Would like to hear some ideas on organization to keep your tools in the garage as well as a good toolkit that does not overlap but can be used both for automotive as well as home use
2. 6", 10" adjustable wrench
3. 7mm 8mm, 9mm, 10mm, 11mm, 12mm, 13mm 14mm, 15mm, 17mm, 19mm combination wrench
4. 9 mm, 10 mm, 11 mm, 12 mm 6 point 1/4" socket
5. 13 mm , 14 mm, 15mm 6 point 3/8" socket
6. deep impact 6 point 1/2" socket
7. 1/4", 3/8", 1/2" swivel head ratchet
8. Hex key set
9. Quality 1/2" beam torque wrench
10. 1/4", 3/8", 1/2" extension bar
11. 3/4" breaker bar with 3/4" to 1/2" adaptor
https://www.harborfreig
https://www.harborfreig
I use a 3/4" breaker bar + steel pipe + heat for stubborn stuffs. It's 100% effective and only 1/10 the price of my 650 ft-lbs air IR impact wrench. You'll need an adaptor if you have 1/2" sockets.
https://www.harborfreig
https://www.harborfreig
https://www.harborfreig
Torque Test Channel taught me otherwise. Impacts per minute are just as important and a corded one building up speed for bigger, less-frequent, impacts just doesn't compare on the REALLY stuck fasteners.
When you absolutely NEED an impact wrench, you need both impact speed and torque so the only 1/2" impact wrench I would even consider form Harbor Freight is the cordless Hercules Ultra Torque or the long-reach version.
I realized the value of having a cordless high-torque impact wrench when I had to do my own brakes over a year ago. It went smoothly, one wheel at a time, up until I got to the last one, which had apparently been replaced with a junkyard wheel and brand new hub by the previous owner. After fruitlessly bouncing up and down on my breaker bar I broke out my corded Chicago Electric (Harbor Freight) Emergency Roadside 1/2" impact wrench which I originally got for doing motorcycle sprockets. It's come in handy for roadside tire changes a few times too, but after spraying penetrant and fighting with the lugs for several minutes I was getting nowhere, it started to smoke. After letting it cool and trying it again it wouldn't even turn.
I had a second Harbor Freight corded impact I found at Goodwill to keep in the other car so I grabbed that. I used two mini butane mini-torches to get the lugs hot and squelched with penetrating spray before introducing the impact wrench and it met a similar fate, this time seizing up while still impacting. Though it's shaped like a traditional impact this kind works like the egg beater type where it spends seconds between impacts to build up speed (low impacts per minute but very high torque).
I was now reduced to using my impact-rated Ryobi socket adapter on my cordless DeWALT Atomic brushless impact driver. I have no idea if the DeWALT had the beans I needed because the Ryobi adapter snapped in two in less than a second… maybe even the first impact. With heat and breaker bar and several hundred foot pounds of torque I did eventually get them off leaving a perfect coil of torn threads on a few of the studs. This was the only shiny new wheel hub and the sheared threads came off intact like a spring so we aren't talking about rust… just grossly over tightened.
After that fiasco I swore that if I needed a 1/2" impact wrench I would never futz around with anything but a cordless hi-torque impact. They are leagues ahead of corded impacts. I got the Craftsman CMCF940 R+P Brushless 1/2" impact wrench, which is a rebadged DeWALT DCF899, but gave it to a friend when I got a broken DCF899 and repaired the anvil (didn't need two battery lines). That friend was amazed when it tore the threads right off a stuck Honda bolt (not the infamous Honda crankshaft bolt… ATV axle IIRC). If I have any trouble with mine I won't hesitate to update to the newer DCF900 or 961.
All that said, I don't think I'd go for the brushed Craftsman model here. It's thoroughly obsolete tech for 1/2" impact wrenches. For Craftsman cordless products I'd stick with the R+P Brushless line.