Valve cover bolt

[GriffX]

This is what I use on all my vehicles. VERY happy with them:


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I wrapped a normal one with duct tape for protection. Not only because I'm cheap, I start more and more to hate online shopping. Fake shops, one store has 5 shops with different names to fake competition and rig the search engines. DHL increases the fees and gets slower every month..... in home depot I find only in one out of ten visits what I need.

 

[Pentalab]

FACT!!!!!! Funny thing is we just had another one.

Son in laws dad works at an industrial supply store here in town. He has folks come in with trashed 12 point chrome sockets....wanting a replacement or refund all the time. He rejects em, since the policy is that 12 point chrome sockets are NEVER to be used on impact guns.... warranty denied. What happens with 12 pointers is...the corners of the socket get rounded off...when used with an impact gun.

I used to use 9/16" 12 point sockets for 3/8" bolts, used on radio towers, used with just a normal 1/2" ratcheting wrench......and eventually, the corners would get rounded off. And that's the last thing you want when you are up 50-100' in the air.

 

[Blue03Cobra]

I wrapped a normal one with duct tape for protection. Not only because I'm cheap, I start more and more to hate online shopping. Fake shops, one store has 5 shops with different names to fake competition and rig the search engines. DHL increases the fees and gets slower every month..... in home depot I find only in one out of ten visits what I need.

Duct tape is fine, to protect the rims, but the set I posted (and I've rarely gotten the wrong item from Amazon) are coated on the inside of the socket, to protect the lug nuts themselves...in addition to the outside plastic protective sleeve.

 

[GriffX]

Duct tape is fine, to protect the rims, but the set I posted (and I've rarely gotten the wrong item from Amazon) are coated on the inside of the socket, to protect the lug nuts themselves...in addition to the outside plastic protective sleeve.

Never noticed that some like this exist

 

[Blue03Cobra]

Never noticed that some like this exist

Description says: "Protective sleeves and inserts protect wheels and lugs...;-)

 

[Midlife Crises]

Haven’t used an impact wrench to tighten or loosen lug nuts for years. Always use a 6 point socket or that silly ass spline drive adapter and a torque wrench to tighten the nuts. Pneumatic or electric wrenches are useful as a speed wrench.

 

[GriffX]

When the car is on the lift ?! The S550 has 200 Nm for the lug nuts now. My impact has around 80 Nm on the lowest level and I torque them when the car is on the ground.

Description says: "Protective sleeves and inserts protect wheels and lugs...;-)

Never noticed that they have protective inserts.