Civic (not integra!)
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:07 pm
Seriously, if you've got a dewalt battery/charger already for a drill etc, the impact driver is a good investment. I got mine from ebay, good price. got myself a full set of deep impact sockets and some extensions aswell. Bergen branded (now usa pro?) - also reasonably priced. Needed them as the halford kit only has 4 large impacts (not deep either).
The main benefit is at the end of the day, your hands aren't aching as much, or injured. Undoing 20+ fasteners to get the gearbox apart, it takes the effort out of the job. A bit noisy for stiff bolts, but 10/12mills only need 2 impacts then it whizzes off. Quite controllable so you can use them for doing it up just until it binds.
In some cases, you just cannot use a normal spanner/ratchet due to the lack of inertia. The ARB drop links made me realise where i had been struggling before. I whipped off an alternator pulley with it the other day, very happy with that. I seem to have lost my set of recessed ring spanners, but even then that probably wasn't going to end well.
Back to the civic - the engine and gearbox are fine thankfully, but the suspension knocking seems to be worse after I washed under the arches. Googling reveals a lot of front suspension issues being common. Perhaps where the shocks mount to the chassis, the mount is worn out (think this was an issue on the lude rear shocks?), perhaps some washers and a tighten up is all that's needed...
The main benefit is at the end of the day, your hands aren't aching as much, or injured. Undoing 20+ fasteners to get the gearbox apart, it takes the effort out of the job. A bit noisy for stiff bolts, but 10/12mills only need 2 impacts then it whizzes off. Quite controllable so you can use them for doing it up just until it binds.
In some cases, you just cannot use a normal spanner/ratchet due to the lack of inertia. The ARB drop links made me realise where i had been struggling before. I whipped off an alternator pulley with it the other day, very happy with that. I seem to have lost my set of recessed ring spanners, but even then that probably wasn't going to end well.
Back to the civic - the engine and gearbox are fine thankfully, but the suspension knocking seems to be worse after I washed under the arches. Googling reveals a lot of front suspension issues being common. Perhaps where the shocks mount to the chassis, the mount is worn out (think this was an issue on the lude rear shocks?), perhaps some washers and a tighten up is all that's needed...