Originally Posted by
eblend
Careful with that thing. It does 240ft-lbs, that's like 3x more than some smaller cars require. I have one and I don't know if I will ever use mine again. I have been using mine for 5 years or so happily, until last year when I went to remove the rear tire on my wife's car. Undoing the bolts...i snapped 4 out of 5 of them! They were rusted and I should have sprayed them with WD40, but needless to say, replacing 4 bolts on a Sunday afternoon was not very fun, luckily Canadian tire was still open and had the bolts I need and I was able to slide them in without disassembling the hub.
Since them....I just use my manual torque wrench.
I didn't even hold it there for a long time or anything, i normally do a quick two clucks and move on to the next, but must have stressed the bolts over time and it finally snapped.