Hi Mark,
I passed my safety check so have postponed taking everything apart while I finish some jobs and do a short travel thing. I have a Craftsman torque wrench so can grunt my way through the process. I also went to NAPA and got the 6 ton floor jacks. But, I can’t get high enough (yet) so am using some wood blocks. Can’t remember if I posted about it but I bought a 20 ton bottle jack and some chain from Home Bleepo. However, there isn’t room to put the jack and jackstand under the axle at the same time. Nuts. So, I chained the axle to the frame and managed to get the back wheels off the ground.
As to my lug nut removal: I also have an electric impact. It’s the Milwaukee 28volt and a beast. I have almost all of the 28v tools. I bought it as a kit thinking it was one of those small screwdriver impacts. Boy was I surprised when I pulled out that thing out of the box! First thing I did was loosen the lug nuts on my friend’s car parked but with a flat. Yay! But, after several successful lug nut removal’s, I tried to help a contractor friend get a wheel off a work pickup but I couldn’t get them loose. Very disappointing. So, I wasn’t surprised when it wouldn’t get the lugs off this dually Sprinter.
Fast forward to recently when I tried to remove the crankshaft pulley on my nephew’s project civic (this time around dad turned it into Stanley Steamer so we’re replacing the head). I knew it would be a b**ch. The impact wouldn’t budge it so we got my pneumatic impact and his dad’s compressor but still no luck. After breaking a cheap Craftsman extension and bending a cheater bar I came across a video describing the mother of all impact sockets. It was a ginormous 19mm impact socket weighing almost two pounds. It’s described as a “torque multiplier”. Our socket was 17mm so I got it and it worked! I got the 19mm (Lisle 77080) for the Sprinter (and other lugs) and it also worked. So, I’m set for when I try this again to get to the inner parts.
jvf