I searched for other threads about this topic, I did find old threads and I tried those suggestions however was unable to actually get the wrench to switch modes even by changing it to other keys or other combination of keys.

industrialcraft-2-2.3.253-ex18 electric wrench mode problems
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IC2 Exp removed in 1.8.9 wrenchloss.. So there is no lossless mode anymore.