using your tool
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using your tool
What neat tool do you own that has saved the day for you? I have two favorites:
-Swiveling box end ratchet-wrenches (I've seen as low as $30/set at HF). These suckers get in everywhere.
-Impact driver ($6 at HF without bits, not as good as my dad's $60 Mac, but good for 10% the price). I don't know how else I could have moved some bolts like the ones that hold on the miata's headlight lids or the fuel pump bottom bracket.
-Swiveling box end ratchet-wrenches (I've seen as low as $30/set at HF). These suckers get in everywhere.
-Impact driver ($6 at HF without bits, not as good as my dad's $60 Mac, but good for 10% the price). I don't know how else I could have moved some bolts like the ones that hold on the miata's headlight lids or the fuel pump bottom bracket.
#5
Nice Craftsman Breaker bar - was using her last night (installing the FM/AGX's)
Also used it last weekend when swapping the front rotors on the winterbeater
It makes loosening factory original nuts and bolts easy, also saves your ratchets internals from snapping - went through a few before i got the bar....
Also used it last weekend when swapping the front rotors on the winterbeater
It makes loosening factory original nuts and bolts easy, also saves your ratchets internals from snapping - went through a few before i got the bar....
#8
Borrowed a set of shorter metric wrenches from a buddy. He just gave them to me. One of them is the only wrench short enough to reach the back passenger side bolt on my HKS manifold, i'd never be able to tighten it otherwise. Longer wrenches it the head or won't slip on the nut because the turbine housing shape.
#12
i'm gonna vote bfh
one time my brother bent the steel wheel on his cavalier and popped the tire off the bead, but the tire was fine. and didn't have a spare to i was able to bend absolutely perfect with a sledge hammer, i was amazed my myself but it came out like nothing ever happened. then he totalled the car
one time my brother bent the steel wheel on his cavalier and popped the tire off the bead, but the tire was fine. and didn't have a spare to i was able to bend absolutely perfect with a sledge hammer, i was amazed my myself but it came out like nothing ever happened. then he totalled the car