134813 - Wheel Socket Tool Failure
We are quite often contacted by Ferrari shops and owners in total dismay of the quality of the parts they receive through the official parts channel. One such shop was amazed at when purchasing a 134813 Wheel socket to take off the wheel nuts off of a Ferrari F40 the tool failed on the very first time of using it.
The customer now desperate to find a tool that worked contacted Hill Engineering and was initially cautious of what we were offering as they had already spent over £300 on a tool from the official parts channel. Not knowing what the customer had in front of them we asked them to take a couple of photos so we could see the failure for ourselves. What landed in our inbox truly shocked us as we could see straight away why the original tool had failed.
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| Failure of 134813 Wheel Socket tool purchased from the official parts channel. |
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| 1" Drive socket has broken 4 small grub screws and has allowed the drive to rotate in the body of the tool. |
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| Hill Engineering Design of the the 134813 Tool (SOC-02) showing the difference in the method used to drive the tool. Utilising Hardened and ground steel pins, tested to a factor of 2 over what the tool would be used under normal use. |
Needless to say, we were quite shocked at what we saw as we know that the wheel nuts on a F40 are tightened to 468ft lbs/ 634 Nm and the torque applied to the tool is much higher when loosening the nuts and the tools can often see substantially more. Trying to console the customer at this point and trying to give some reassurance to the customer that the Hill Part ( SOC-02) was not manufactured like the above tool but with a much more substantial method of drive between the parts that make the tool up.
Hill Engineering has great pride in its manufacturing, design, development and the lengths it goes to in testing parts. This is what we believe that makes us so well respected in the trade and the reason why Hill Engineering parts are chosen as a first choice.
