*This was a really good deal for **MyBest.Tools** and adding in another drill driver is great. Arrived the next day after the order was placed. Happy with the purchase and love using Dewalt.*
Finally a vid showing me why my bit is jammed in there and will not come out. But best of all this guy explains how to fix the problem and what parts you need!! Great job thank you!
I didn't have time to wait for a new spring as I was on a job. I took a pair of pliers and bent the spring so it would work like it originally did and put it back together and it works fine now.
There are several videos that cover this topic, but yours is the only one that I found that gives details and actually shows how to make the repair. Others don’t show how to reinstall the ball bearing or how to orient the chuck to make sure it goes on right. Thanks.
This one was everything I needed. I decided to just use mini flatheads to get the hog ring on. One thing I would add is to clamp down your driver to your work bench. Then the hand that's doing the holding of the flat washer and spring has to do so much less. Dude you made a great video that helped me out perf. Thank you!
Awesome! Thanks so much. I was confused about the orientation of the inner spring and the placement of the ball bearing. Not no more!!! The tip on the use if a retaining ring tool helped a ton as well. So, I'll add that an extra hand helped a ton pushing down the washer with a thin flathead screwdriver while the retaining ring is installed.
Dude....THANK YOU!!! My 3 speed DeWalt Impact is $260 here in Oz. I was literally like, “ah well, I’ll grab one tomorrow.....but maybe I’ll just check TH-cam first.” My ball bearing had just gotten behind the spring. 3 minute fix, $0.00 dollars!!! Thanks a bunch!
You're my hero! I have 2 of the 12v drivers and a 20v impact that were randomly dropping bits. When you're on a ladder this is deviating when it happens. I've actually taken it apart, but didn't realize what the issue was.
You did that quick. It took me about 20 minutes fiddling with a tiny screwdriver and my fat fingers dropping the ring. Then the fix lasted maybe 6 months. I'm definitely buying some of those snap ring pliers before I fix it again.
It's pretty clear that the retaining spring is flawed either in design or material, and DeWalt should be replacing them as a recall, but they are stiffarming customers at support. Pretty sad for a company that is supposed to be making quality tools. Thanks again for the video, too bad so many will need it... I bought 4 impact tools this year and 3 have already have defecting chuck springs...
Old topic just watched, but Same my gen 1 brushless lasted a good 5 maybe 6 yrs heavy use ledger locks and lags all day into lams someone was using her when it finally busted
@@kirk422 well if yours lasted 5 years, kind of explains what happened, obviously the generation of tools i bought got some bad steel or they changed suppliers. 3 out of 4 tools failing in the first 6 months is no outlier. When I called DeWALT, all my tools were less than 6 months old.
Did this and it fixed my perfectly good impact driver. For £3.50. Thank you. God bless geezers who look out for geezers. You’ve inspired me to repair other tools I don’t use as much but need some tlc for a few quid. Cheers
Mine simply wouldn't hold a bit anymore all I did was find a key ring that was tight around the chuck and put a bend in the end to hold the ball berring. Very simple fix and no kit to pay for literally fixed in 5 min. If there's a demand I will make a video!
Thanks for the vid, I was able to fix mine. I was unable to purchase a new ball spring at a reasonable price,; so I discovered that you can also repair the ball spring. I did this by heating and bending it again to hold the ball. It was easy to do.
Thank you for sharing we have 5 or 6 guns and the newest 4 won't hold a bit anymore pretty dissapointed in dewalt tools overall. My cordless circular saw if used a few times is shot to
first off repair videos on TH-cam have save me a ton of money and agony. This video was fantastic great easy to follow and will help me fix my drill. I ordered a 6 pack of the ball rings from Amazon.ca for less then $30 delivered.
This is the best detailed video . I dropped my drill and whole chuck fall apart. I'm missing the ballberring part . What is the size of the ballberring ? I tried 1,320 mm and is not to small
This is great! I just got a brand new DCF850B and the chuck literally stopped holding bits after just a couple of hours. I returned it so we'll see how the next one is. If it fails again, I guess I'll perform this fix!
Cool thank you 🙏🏼 great video breakdown! Did same, bent end of spring but it broke again, I've had 2 impact drivers since, 3 speed and atomic dcf850 but good thing I held onto original brushless 887 I think??? I'll give this a try, already had spring and ball bearing in my ebay cart a while now just needed this gentle nudge to pull the trigger ha
This spring is known to fail time and time again. I met a fellow that had the factory replace his and it failed again after 6 weeks. Mine has failed but I fixed it my way and will see if it lasts. I shrunk and cut a spring out of a ball point pen and stuck it behind the locking ball to help push it forward in the locking position. I will get to see how long this lasts.
The reason is very Simple and very sad that DeWalt has made that poor chuck design. I,m building high ropes parks and mostly i connect steel cables 10mm and 12mm using wire ropę clips. I decided to get dcf840 with power stack, because of the lightweight,control and power. This chuck is wobble master and Hex to 1/2 adapter destroyer because is too shallow and the distribution of torque force is given mostly to the end tip of Hex. Only 2 mm in DeWalt when the quick relase chuck is pushing the bit ,the deepest insert gets 5 mm on the bit or adapter. I have made investigation on my other stuff. Milwaukee Chuck gets 5 mm and 9 mm when fully inserted, Makita is even more. That's mean the bits are more stable and more adapters in your pocket You can show this maybe on film. Thank you and have a unwobble day.
Thanks for the video. At about 2:16 in, you mention that you can't put the chuck on backwards. I found out the hard way that you actually can, and the bit will not release once in. The front of the chuck (facing out from drill) has the deeper recess where the spring sits below the washer.
Thanks for the video, but I had the opposite experience. My DeWalt impact wouldn't let bits OUT of the chuck. I replaced the anvil (probably wasn't necessary) and most of the front end assembly. You say it's pretty clear which direction the chuck goes on... well I'll be that idiot! I WAS putting the chuck on backward, which was causing my bit sticking issue with the new parts... but I still don't know why my bits were getting stuck on the chuck as-assembled by DeWalt.
Yea, I put in thousands of screws, hundreds of tapcons, so it gets used hard. When the first one died, I thought it was probably because of my sandy environment, but when the second one died... It is just such a flimsy little spring and not up to the torque and impact that it needs to handle. All the repair shops are well aware of this problem and order ball springs in bulk. Sorry this wasn't the construction update you were hoping for ;^)
I've probably replaced 30 of these over the last five years. I'm pretty rough on my tools. Lots of tapcons . It still doesn't make getting that hog ring back on any easier
I have made this replacement and remade it but the ball doesn't seem to engage enough, therefor the chuck still doesn't hold. Think there is a chance I need a larger ball or stronger spring even though these parts all seem to be the right ones ?
No certainly not a larger ball. If you think the spring is too weak, you could stretch it out a little. But more likely you have the spring on the wrong side of the ball?
Used the same impact drill for 3 years. Never had this issue. Then that drill left my posession, and I ended up needing another. After a year, the chuck broke.
I have three drivers, but I am building a house and work them all hard in a sandy environment. I often use self tapping screws (into steel) or tapcons into concrete. This video was the first time I had to fix one of my drivers. I made the video because I couldn't find a decent one that show what I needed to do. But since this video, I have had to replace the same spring in both other drivers and this driver needed a new hog ring (it just wore out and couldn't hold the assembly together anymore).
*This was a really good deal for **MyBest.Tools** and adding in another drill driver is great. Arrived the next day after the order was placed. Happy with the purchase and love using Dewalt.*
Finally a vid showing me why my bit is jammed in there and will not come out. But best of all this guy explains how to fix the problem and what parts you need!!
Great job thank you!
I didn't have time to wait for a new spring as I was on a job. I took a pair of pliers and bent the spring so it would work like it originally did and put it back together and it works fine now.
Same here worked great
I had three fail within 3 months of buying. Granted, I used them everyday, but three months of typical use shouldn't break a properly built tool
There are several videos that cover this topic, but yours is the only one that I found that gives details and actually shows how to make the repair. Others don’t show how to reinstall the ball bearing or how to orient the chuck to make sure it goes on right.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for posting this. I just spent an hour with my dad rewatching it and we managed to finally fix it!!! Same problem!
This one was everything I needed. I decided to just use mini flatheads to get the hog ring on. One thing I would add is to clamp down your driver to your work bench. Then the hand that's doing the holding of the flat washer and spring has to do so much less. Dude you made a great video that helped me out perf. Thank you!
Yup, good tip about clamping down the gun for a free hand.
Awesome! Thanks so much. I was confused about the orientation of the inner spring and the placement of the ball bearing. Not no more!!! The tip on the use if a retaining ring tool helped a ton as well. So, I'll add that an extra hand helped a ton pushing down the washer with a thin flathead screwdriver while the retaining ring is installed.
Best tutorial on this topic on YT! You’ve saved my butt twice in 4 years!!🎉
Dude....THANK YOU!!! My 3 speed DeWalt Impact is $260 here in Oz. I was literally like, “ah well, I’ll grab one tomorrow.....but maybe I’ll just check TH-cam first.” My ball bearing had just gotten behind the spring. 3 minute fix, $0.00 dollars!!! Thanks a bunch!
bought dewalt impact second hand did not realise chuck was faulty your vid was very helpful to identify the part i needed , thankyou..
I changed that spring when I watched your video, It works like new,thank you .
Thanks for the note about putting the ball bearing ahead of the spring. Also lovely soft voice 🙂
You're my hero! I have 2 of the 12v drivers and a 20v impact that were randomly dropping bits. When you're on a ladder this is deviating when it happens. I've actually taken it apart, but didn't realize what the issue was.
Yup, I am up to 3 drivers now and two are dropping bits again. Time to do the repair again.
My 8 year old dewalt just starting doing this. Perfect video
One of the best videos for replacing this part and fixing the problem :)
Mine seems to have broke today. Watched your video and ordered the parts! Thanks!
You did that quick. It took me about 20 minutes fiddling with a tiny screwdriver and my fat fingers dropping the ring. Then the fix lasted maybe 6 months. I'm definitely buying some of those snap ring pliers before I fix it again.
Great video. Helped me out just now. If in a pinch, bend a new "hook" on the ball spring until your new part gets in.
That spring steel is super hard to bend a hook into without snapping it... But yea, give it a try.
Thanks. Dewalt parts site shows the top spring going under the sleeve instead of over it. Thanks to your video I got it sorted out.
It's pretty clear that the retaining spring is flawed either in design or material, and DeWalt should be replacing them as a recall, but they are stiffarming customers at support. Pretty sad for a company that is supposed to be making quality tools. Thanks again for the video, too bad so many will need it... I bought 4 impact tools this year and 3 have already have defecting chuck springs...
Mine lasted 5 years of heavy heavy daily use before breaking. I hardly call that a flaw. I repeat heavy use. $5 fix and I’m back on the road.
Old topic just watched, but Same my gen 1 brushless lasted a good 5 maybe 6 yrs heavy use ledger locks and lags all day into lams someone was using her when it finally busted
@@kirk422 well if yours lasted 5 years, kind of explains what happened, obviously the generation of tools i bought got some bad steel or they changed suppliers. 3 out of 4 tools failing in the first 6 months is no outlier. When I called DeWALT, all my tools were less than 6 months old.
Thanks! That helped to fix my impact!
Awesome video This helped me fix my dewalt 1/4" impact Thanks so much
Did this and it fixed my perfectly good impact driver. For £3.50. Thank you. God bless geezers who look out for geezers. You’ve inspired me to repair other tools I don’t use as much but need some tlc for a few quid. Cheers
Hey, who you callin' a geezer... I'm still youngish ;)
Your video was the best I've seen for this. You give details others don't.
Glad you liked it.
Great video, thanks! Love the drill but just hit 1 year with it and that happened. Easy fix though so it's all good.
Thank you for this video! My Dewalt has the exact same problem.
N078434 part # for the spring ball
N053863 ring
N089668 steel ball 3.5 mm
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Thank you 😊
Thank you my friend!!!
Bless you
Thanks for making this video, saved me from taking my driver to a repair shed.
Thanks so much for the video. I was ready to buy another impact but the one I have is fine...thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.
Thanks for taking the time for this .
Thank you for your time in making this video it was extremely helpful
Thanks for the video great explanation on the spring as well.
Just ordered the springs. Thank you!!
Mine simply wouldn't hold a bit anymore all I did was find a key ring that was tight around the chuck and put a bend in the end to hold the ball berring. Very simple fix and no kit to pay for literally fixed in 5 min. If there's a demand I will make a video!
Craig Evans need the video
Craig Evans video please
Show us how please
@@seanfinnegan2626 link is above
I was able to fix mine thanks to this video but that hug washer was a PITA to install. Thanks for the video, very helpful.
Thanks for the help! Much appreciated!
Thanks for this video man! Couldn't find a fix anywhere.
Thank you. You saved me from throwing away my Porter Cable inpact drill
Thanks man! Excellent video skills!
Looks straightforward enough..thanks for the video..I'll buy the parts and have a go.
Thanks,same thing for me this week on job site.Stopped holding the shaft...
Thanks for the vid, I was able to fix mine. I was unable to purchase a new ball spring at a reasonable price,; so I discovered that you can also repair the ball spring. I did this by heating and bending it again to hold the ball. It was easy to do.
thanks for the additional advice - I just bent mine instead of looking for a replacement part and had it fixed in under 5 minutes.
Thanks! answered our questions and we got it done!
Did exactly like you said and fixed it. Thank you!
Thanks! Fixed my impact with this. :)
Thanks for this. Just going to bend and re seat the spring thanks again
Thank you for sharing we have 5 or 6 guns and the newest 4 won't hold a bit anymore pretty dissapointed in dewalt tools overall. My cordless circular saw if used a few times is shot to
So many people do video, but this one actually looks at all the elements to replace that spring.
Thank you so much! I watched other videos on yours was the most helpful
He'll yea thanks! just didn't know where to put the ball. ahead of the spring 👍
Thanks for your time. Very helpful video
Thanks! I have the same driver and will remember if this happens to me as well
Great video. Very helpful!
Thank you sir! Helpful video, saved my Dewalt driver from ending up in the landfill
Funny thing is that I think I need to do this repair again soon...
Thanks for the tutorial! I'm so happy to have been able to repair my impact! It's was simple to follow and I save a couple bucks by repairing it!
Thanks man helped me a lot!
first off repair videos on TH-cam have save me a ton of money and agony. This video was fantastic great easy to follow and will help me fix my drill. I ordered a 6 pack of the ball rings from Amazon.ca for less then $30 delivered.
Got 4 for $9
Nice one fella. Good vid!
Thanks dude, works perfect
you save my life THANK YOU
This is the best detailed video . I dropped my drill and whole chuck fall apart. I'm missing the ballberring part . What is the size of the ballberring ?
I tried 1,320 mm and is not to small
great video!! just fixed mine and saved me £100 for a new one!
This is great! I just got a brand new DCF850B and the chuck literally stopped holding bits after just a couple of hours. I returned it so we'll see how the next one is. If it fails again, I guess I'll perform this fix!
Oh yea, this sort of repair is for after you lost the receipt. ;)
Great video, now to order the parts. Thank you.
You don't need a new part. Just bend the end of the old spring into same shape like a little hook and put it back in. Simple as that.
Cool thank you 🙏🏼 great video breakdown! Did same, bent end of spring but it broke again, I've had 2 impact drivers since, 3 speed and atomic dcf850 but good thing I held onto original brushless 887 I think??? I'll give this a try, already had spring and ball bearing in my ebay cart a while now just needed this gentle nudge to pull the trigger ha
this is a good video thanks, i'll have to order the ball spring but i'm now confident to do the job Cheers!
This spring is known to fail time and time again. I met a fellow that had the factory replace his and it failed again after 6 weeks. Mine has failed but I fixed it my way and will see if it lasts. I shrunk and cut a spring out of a ball point pen and stuck it behind the locking ball to help push it forward in the locking position. I will get to see how long this lasts.
So.... how'd the fix last?
This is great! Thanks!
Super helpful. Thank you
Great video.
Excellent,,,helped a lot
Cheers mate, thank you
The reason is very Simple and very sad that DeWalt has made that poor chuck design. I,m building high ropes parks and mostly i connect steel cables 10mm and 12mm using wire ropę clips. I decided to get dcf840 with power stack, because of the lightweight,control and power. This chuck is wobble master and Hex to 1/2 adapter destroyer because is too shallow and the distribution of torque force is given mostly to the end tip of Hex. Only 2 mm in DeWalt when the quick relase chuck is pushing the bit ,the deepest insert gets 5 mm on the bit or adapter.
I have made investigation on my other stuff. Milwaukee Chuck gets 5 mm and 9 mm when fully inserted, Makita is even more. That's mean the bits are more stable and more adapters in your pocket
You can show this maybe on film.
Thank you and have a unwobble day.
I noticed that it easier to pop it in by holding one side of the opening with your thumb and using a pick to work it around.
Thank you very much great video
Thanks for the video. At about 2:16 in, you mention that you can't put the chuck on backwards.
I found out the hard way that you actually can, and the bit will not release once in. The front of the chuck (facing out from drill) has the deeper recess where the spring sits below the washer.
Not my chuck, but there are several variations of these guns.
Thanks mate 👍
Great video thanks.
Thank you mate
Thanks for the video, but I had the opposite experience. My DeWalt impact wouldn't let bits OUT of the chuck. I replaced the anvil (probably wasn't necessary) and most of the front end assembly. You say it's pretty clear which direction the chuck goes on... well I'll be that idiot! I WAS putting the chuck on backward, which was causing my bit sticking issue with the new parts... but I still don't know why my bits were getting stuck on the chuck as-assembled by DeWalt.
Thanks man this video helped me alot a+++
Awesome vid, this has happen to me 3 times and I’m finally gonna fix them. Lol
Is it possible to replace the full assembly with the 1/2 inch drive one?
You'd think DeWalt of all companies would have fixed this by now, they're supposed to be the toughest out there. Good video.
Yea, I put in thousands of screws, hundreds of tapcons, so it gets used hard. When the first one died, I thought it was probably because of my sandy environment, but when the second one died... It is just such a flimsy little spring and not up to the torque and impact that it needs to handle. All the repair shops are well aware of this problem and order ball springs in bulk.
Sorry this wasn't the construction update you were hoping for ;^)
Planned obsolescence. It seems they hope people will just go buy another than take the time to fix it.
I lost the washer that goes on top of the larger spring. Where can I get one?
Thank you
Yo, dewalt, you owe us this guy some free tools. Good video.
I wish!
Thanks
where can i purchase that parts?
Where did you order the parts?
Great Job & Video, Thx Can you please put the link for the parts if you can? Thx
I've probably replaced 30 of these over the last five years. I'm pretty rough on my tools. Lots of tapcons . It still doesn't make getting that hog ring back on any easier
I used to just buy a new impact or combo kit when they would break. But that was starting to get expensive. Now I have a whole box of DeWalt impacts.
Yea, I have been thru many boxes of tapcons... I guess that hammer action is tough on the tools.
Thanks!
Feels like an ASMR video
Yea, I'll try to go louder in the future... It sounds fine to me, but I get this sort of comment alot.
I have made this replacement and remade it but the ball doesn't seem to engage enough, therefor the chuck still doesn't hold. Think there is a chance I need a larger ball or stronger spring even though these parts all seem to be the right ones ?
No certainly not a larger ball. If you think the spring is too weak, you could stretch it out a little. But more likely you have the spring on the wrong side of the ball?
Does anyone know if this dewalt spring will fit the Ryobi impact driver? Or where I can buy this part for ryobi driver? Thanks.
I imagine Ryobi would have their own similar parts replacement solution. To find the Dewalt one, I used google.
Used the same impact drill for 3 years. Never had this issue. Then that drill left my posession, and I ended up needing another. After a year, the chuck broke.
I have three drivers, but I am building a house and work them all hard in a sandy environment. I often use self tapping screws (into steel) or tapcons into concrete. This video was the first time I had to fix one of my drivers. I made the video because I couldn't find a decent one that show what I needed to do. But since this video, I have had to replace the same spring in both other drivers and this driver needed a new hog ring (it just wore out and couldn't hold the assembly together anymore).
Does anyone have a link to buy the repair kit?
Maximiliano Garcia did anyone posted a link to buy the repair kit?
What parts to i search to order? Anyone have a link?
Dewalt makes atool for installing hog ring but it costs more than a new bare tool.