Milwaukee's New M18 FUEL 3/4-Inch High Torque Impact Hits 2,000 ft-lbs and Adds Bolt Removal Mode

The last place air tools still rule a shop is the big stuff: lug nuts on HD trucks, suspension bolts that have been rusting for a decade, anything that needs a 3/4-inch drive. Milwaukee keeps chipping away at that. At its PIPELINE 2026 event on August 12 and 13 in Wisconsin, the company showed a new M18 FUEL 3/4-inch High Torque Impact Wrench with ONE-KEY, along with an Extended Anvil version, with launch expected in the fourth quarter, Body Shop Business reported.

The headline figure is up to 2,000 ft-lbs of nut-busting torque and 1,800 ft-lbs of fastening torque. Milwaukee claims up to 40 percent faster removal speeds than cordless and pneumatic competition.

Two versions

The standard 2964-20 weighs 8.1 pounds bare and runs up to 2,000 rpm. It adds 4-Mode Customizable Drive Control, AUTO-SHUTOFF Control and a Bolt Removal Mode, and Milwaukee rates it for up to 120 1-1/4-inch bolts per charge on an XC8.0 battery. The bare tool is $499. The 2964-22 kit, with two M18 FORGE XC 8.0 Ah batteries, a Rapid Charger and a hard case, is $849.

The Extended Anvil 2969 adds a 6-inch anvil and a Lug-Nut Snug Mode, weighs 9.3 pounds bare and is rated for up to 10 tires, or 100 lug nuts, per charge. It is $599 bare or $949 as the 2969-22 kit with two batteries, a charger and a side handle. Protective boots are $49 for either tool.

Why it matters

For anybody working on lifted trucks, HD pickups or trailers, a 3/4-inch impact that does not need a hose means the tool can go to the job instead of the job coming to the compressor. The extended anvil version is the interesting one for tire work, since the long anvil reaches lug nuts recessed deep in big wheels, and the snug mode is meant to stop short of over-torquing before the torque wrench comes out.

Milwaukee says the tools are part of the M18 system, which it says includes more than 300 solutions, so most shops that already run red batteries can add one without buying into a new platform.