Fake Makita Impact Wrench Good? Let's See
 

Got this recently on Aliexpress for $44.00 shipped (tool only) after seeing some YouTube reviews and made a video myself.

So is it good?
Check it out on our Lexus' SUV wheels!


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I was given a Chinese Dewalt drill a while back. That thing sucks. It smokes and smells like fire. Im lucky if I get 10 mins of run time out of it.

Wow that's crazy!
Which one do you have?

End up getting mine after seeing this video below. This guy tears tools apart gives them torture tests and goes through all the internals.

After seeing that, I was sold

It's just really hard to go back to battery impact wrenches after you've been using a pneumatic ingersoll rand with over 1000 lbs of torque.

Even the milwaukee ones we use at work are a third of the torque of an IR but weight 5x as much and cost 2x as much.

Better to just get a compressor and a pneumatic even if you have to buy a small generator to use it portable.

Hey Cleric.
Have you tried the new M18 High Torque Milwuakee? It's somewhere around 1400 ft lbs and weighs around 7lbs or so

Just curious what your thoughts are on that

I dont see a point in going pneumatic with all the advanced battery powered tools that have been produced in the past few years.

I would like to thank you both for your insight.

I did an internal inspection before I first used it and saw my unit was dry w/ very little grease.
Greased up the anvil, hammering mechanism, gears and bell housing w/ Moly high temp /high pressure grease and it was much better.


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Yesterday I did a quick torque test on my G which has Gorilla spline lugs torqued to 80 ft lbs.

It was able to take them off.
I upped the torque wrench up to 130 ft lbs on one final lug just for kicks.
The wrench zapped the lug off easily like it was 80 ft lbs.

So it definitely has some grunt to it.
Is the power like an M18 Mid Torque....probably not
BUT is the power level like an M12 Stubby or Rigid Subcompact Impact Wrench....possibly.

Now I wonder how it'll perform with an actual LXT Makita battery

On a sidenote...my torque wrench went kaput and would no longer work (thankfully after everything was torqued at the end).
Thank goodness for HF lifetime warranty....they exchanged it no questions asked even w/o a receipt lol

No the last ones we were using were rated at like 450 lbs torque but I think they're all the same sized frame, they were pretty much universally despised across the job site though ESPECIALLY during the winter because even those Milwaukee batteries are pretty crap on really cold days. The thing is just too darned heavy for repeat overhead use, the tool only was over 5 lbs plus throw a battery on it I bet it was close to 8 lbs and swinging that around overhead all day long gets old really quick. Plus it's a very LARGE tool, especially with the battery on, the little 3 AH batteries aren't too bad but with the 12 AH (these things suck batteries down quick so the 12 is advisable if you don't want to go through 5-8 batteries per day) it gets to be a really bulky tool.

Don't get me wrong, Milwaukee made an AMAZING battery impact wrench and it's probably the best on the market, but you're always going to be at the mercy of the battery which will perform badly in cold weather. Plus it's going to be bulky because of the nature of the beast.

For daily use I strongly recommend an Ingersoll Rand 2235TiMAX, used them for years at work (mostly as the non-titanium version which is a little heavier) and finally picked up one for myself last year. However if it's not a tool that you're using daily and you just want a portable impact wrench you definitely can't go wrong with Milwaukee.

That Makita knockoff for auto use will probably be just fine for every single bolt on the whole car except the crank pulley, I'd like to see how it fares on the crank pulley nut though if it busts that off then it would definitely be the cheapest wrench on the market that can literally do everything on a car.

Thanks Cleric!
I guess I never thought about Air being lighter and an option for me working at home.

Carrying a super heavy wrench all day would be gruesome.
I can definitely see where you're coming from.

Hopefully you get a chance to play with the M18 mid torque and Rigid Gen5X Octane.
I hear great things about them weight and power wise!

Unfortunately I missed the sale on the Rigid when I was shopping but ended up with the AutoJare High Torque which is very good.

You probably have access to Snap on and other great tools like the SP Impact Wrench.
I would be a kid in a candy store in your position!

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Just made a new comparison between the Fake Makita and my new Autojare High Torque Impact!

Check them out!
They both went up to 150 ft lbs w/o any issues.

Next up...the junkyard test.
I'll try both on a crank pulley and see how they do :D