Safety Issue because sharing is caring

[4uall]

This weekend I was swapping my winter tires on one of our cars and while torquing a wheel nut I ended up breaking my nose and being concussed I had it set to 104/lbs/ft and it was rated much higher and had both hands on it and was crouching next to car on the third wheel. Next thing I know, I did a faceplant, nose first into the rear passenger window (Passat wagon). Luckily, a friend of mine was there to help me. "Man I thought you were dead" "there was blood everywhere" as I was regaining concsiousness The tool simply failed

Be careful out there

[joelittel]

Wow, scary. Glad you are ok.

[AriK]

Wow! That's quite the punch in the face! That sounds worse than the time i was smartly supervising a buddy of mine while he was installing my brake spring with a vice grip and smashed me in the face with it. I hope you recover soon! Did you really break you nose and get a concussion?
Lessons learned: No more drum brakes and vice grips in the same sitting and wheel nuts only need to be torqued at 70-80 ft lbs.

[RoyBatty]

Glad you're ok.
Looks as though the results were the same as a good match of Italian arm wrestling.

[4uall]

Oh it was an arm wrestle LOL



AriK I was out cold brother. Nose was busted internally but no worries, I'm still pretty

[Zippy]

Yikes! Glad you're okay.

[btoran]

yikes. now you know you're strong enough to break a perfectly good tool and get hurt while doing it. glad you're ok.

[RoyBatty]

Actually, all joking aside.
This is why you push away for torque. Not pull back at yourself.

[4uall]

btoran you know it




Roy Batty I was pushing away, that's why I fell into the car when the torque bar broke

[rjkoop]

Wow! Glad your ok Jay.

Just 10 minutes ago I was torquing the wheel nuts on the kids car. Thankfully nothing happened but I think I would have been really nervous if I read this post beforehand.

[spiderdan]

Same as Richard, just switched to my summers on the Azera a few days ago and I'm glad i didn't read this 1st!
Save another nose and tell us what brand of torque wrench it was?
Too bad you didn't gopro it, I'm sure it go viral.
Sorry, I shouldn't laugh Jay but....

[RoyBatty]

Sorry, I misread the original post.
I have witnessed others popping themselves I the face when pulling torque back into themselves.
I guess in you're case our was a matter of lost balance due to the surprise of the sudden lack of resistance.
I HATE when that happens.

[baltobernie]

It was not the torque wrench that got you, Jay. It was those #@&* Habs!

[azruss]

sounds like your lugnuts were put on with an impact wrench. I never push that hard on a wrench for this exact reason. I go and get a piece of pipe and let it do the work.

[phaetn]

Holy crap! I had no idea when texting you yesterday.

Glad you're on the mend!

FWIW, I'm on serious concussion number five (though that was probably twenty years ago). I'm sure there's been one hell of a cumulative effect, but since I can't tell (b/c I've been too concussed) I don't worry about it.

If you were out cold, make sure to take it easy for a bit and let that brain of yours heal.

Cheers,
phaetn