- Width across flats 1: 24 mm
- Width across flats 3: 32 mm
- Width across flats 4: 3/4 # inch
Wheel braces for car, van and truck wheel nuts
A wheel brace turns wheel nuts fast and squarely, without the knuckle work a short ratchet forces on you at the roadside. The cross pattern carries four socket sizes, usually 17, 19, 21 and 23 mm, so one tool covers passenger cars, vans and light commercials. The straight lever pattern trades that spread for reach and leverage on heavier nuts up to 32 or 33 mm.
Arm length is the real specification: a 420 mm brace stores under a seat, while 550 to 750 mm arms break loose seized nuts that were machine tightened, and a 1/2" square drive lets you fit an impact socket for anything unusual. Look for forged chrome plated arms, deep sockets that reach a recessed nut without touching the alloy, and size stamping you can read in poor light.
Final tightening still belongs to a torque wrench. Keep a combination spanner within reach for carrier bolts and brackets, and a hex key for the caliper and cover fasteners around the hub.
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 2: 19 mm
- Width across flats 3: 21 mm
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 3: 21 mm
- Width across flats 4: 1/2 # inch
- Width across flats 1: 24 mm
- Width across flats 3: 30 mm
- Width across flats 4: 32 mm
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 3: 21 mm
- Width across flats 4: 1/2 # inch
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 3: 21 mm
- Width across flats 4: 11/16 inch
- Width across flats 1: 24 mm
- Width across flats 3: 32 mm
- Width across flats 4: 3/4 # inch
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 2: 19 mm
- Width across flats 3: 23 mm
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 2: 19 mm
- Width across flats 3: 22 mm
- Width across flats 1: 27 mm
- Width across flats 3: 32 mm
- Width across flats 4: 3/4 # inch
- Width across flats 1: 24 mm
- Width across flats 2: 27 mm
- Width across flats 3: 30 mm
- Length: 220 mm
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 3: 21 mm
- Width across flats 4: 1/2 # inch
- Width across flats 1: 24 mm
- Width across flats 3: 32 mm
- Width across flats 4: 38 mm
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 3: 22 mm
- Width across flats 4: 1/2 # inch
- Width across flats 1: 27 mm
- Width across flats 3: 32 mm
- Width across flats 4: 33 mm
- Width across flats 1: 24 mm
- Width across flats 2: 27 mm
- Width across flats 3: 32 mm
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 3: 21 mm
- Width across flats 4: 22 mm
- Width across flats 1: 17 mm
- Width across flats 3: 21 mm
- Width across flats 4: 11/16 inch