I paid $174 for a hydraulic torque wrench that sheared off on the third lug nut

Sandra Black · 2026-10-10T00:30:03.204565+00:00

Bought the thing off a tool truck last spring because the guy swore it would handle tube sheet work at our shop in Corpus Christi. Third lug nut on the first job, the drive head snapped clean off and the socket went rolling under the platform. Took it back and he told me I must have overloaded it, so I ate the whole $174 plus a week of downtime waiting on a replacement. Anyone else get burned on a truck tool like that, and what do you run now instead?

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