Little impact wrench that could NOT

[Gobi King]

Man, Shibs!

Your low temperatures and ice make our 24° lows seem like warm sand, bikinis, and palm trees!

My hat is off to your determination.  I generally scrape the heck out of my hands and arms when working in cold conditions.

Usually just wait for a good day.  With the new truck/RV carport —- there are some dry options now.

Be careful!

Best, Fred

Fred,
That car port your built is the shizzle, you might have some Pharaoh genes :-).

I was waiting for "good" days, many dry 35F days went by and then I saw the forcast -15F, things got serious, lol.

I don't get too many days off when my daughter is with me, so we made the most of it.

Can't work without gloves in cold anymore, fingers gets stiff ...

Another dry day around 30F and I will work on the rear brakes on her truck and then my duramax.

Sitting on the curb, these get a bunch of salt on the driver side.

[Gobi King]

   Well I feel for you , I just got cold looking at this .  I see you have a sand creeper and a height adjusting lift . Hope you ran the engine a little before draining , it does make it easier and warmer   
 I use to have to go out every cold  morning 2 hours before the job started to start the machines .    Most had 3-53 and 4-53 GMC .  I could not trust the operators with a can of ether .   Too many bent connecting rod would be the outcome .   

Yeah, bezos keeps sending me new sand creepers often

The duramax never had issues starting, I do add some anti gel to the diesel for those -16f nights, 5 seconds on glow plugs and it starts up on 2 or 3rd crank.

Yeah, I had it run it till the temp moved a bit. switched the oil to 5w40 syn and charged the batteries.

[Gobi King]

A few people have touched on the probable cause.

The cold.

The torque output of cordless tools is hugely dependent on how "juicy" the battery is, which is very affected by cold. Wouldn't take a lot of cold to drop a best-case 100ftlb tool to where it wouldn't remove 60-odd ftlb.

Boon, you are correct, the batts are old and not used much, the unit stored inside and I had just take them out,

I bought some XC batts for it since this attempt and I bought a digital torque gauge, I will bench mark the tool.

I have a much of very $$$ milwaukee tools, but at the mid and small size I will use my Hart or Hyper Touch line of impact wrenches,

My plan it so use my van's wheel to confirm the torque rating I get for each.

The wheels on my Ford Transit are at 140 lb-ft of torque.

[Benni3]

I seen something on tv this guy was putting alaska heat pads on trucks,,,,oil pans,battery

[Gobi King]

Bennie
I curb park my vehicles, there is access to power unfortunately.

I have never heated the truck, with glow plugs it starts fine at -17f, with synthetic oil, I don't have to wait for the oil to warm up a little before I drive it.

[Gobi King]

I did some research on max watts outputs of m12 batteries.

I figured my existing batts were not up to the challenge.
TTC tested some off brand m12 batts and suggested waitley brand of Amazon.
I picked up a few.

I torqued the wheel lug of my ridgeline for 6 seconds with the Milwaukee.
The wheel specs 96 ft lb

I checked the torque with my t-wrench and none of the nuts budged.

I must say I was a little impressed with both the off brand batts and little torque wrench.

Off brand batt cost $30 vs $60 for Milwaukee on sale.

Side note: watching YouTube
My goto compact impact wrench, if I had to buy one today
Would be
Hyper tough compact 20v impact
In the pic

$60 vs $200 for Milwaukee m12

[Brewcrafter]

okay Shibs, I need a wiser man to edejumacate me on this (I skipped class the day we were learning about Wheatstone Bridges and I regret it to this day).  The Name Brand is 12V at 6AH, the discount brand is 20V at 4AH.  Assuming that the stickers don't lie, what is this telling me? - john

[Gobi King]

HT is a Walmart brand
Awesome value in brushless tools
They have 12v and 20v lines
All are
Scoring high on tests and costs 1/3 of a red tool with battery .
The HT is a great alternate choice for a compact impact wrench .


The Milwaukee brushed compact impact just needed a beefier battery.
Instead of buying a Milwaukee for $70, I bought an brand "waitley" from bezos and that worked fine

The HT compact comes with a 2ah battery which is adequate and light enough for one handed use

[MarkT]

Man, Shibs!

Your low temperatures and ice make our 24° lows seem like warm sand, bikinis, and palm trees!

My hat is off to your determination.  I generally scrape the heck out of my hands and arms when working in cold conditions.

Usually just wait for a good day.  With the new truck/RV carport —- there are some dry options now.

Be careful!

Best, Fred

If you're going out there in your bikini doing your brakes in the snow we're gonna need pics or I'm calling BS, just sayin'!