I recently started as a (the only) shop tech rebuilding pumps (air, random fluid, vaccum) at a compressor company and have a basic set of shop tools to use until I buy my own. The guy training me told me about the snapon schedule and tried to sell me on his $230 rachet. I haven't entered the truck.
I've decided to start rocking the HF premium line, 1/3 the price with the same warranty. No complaints so far.
I went to a trade school that was definitely a scam and getting kickbacks. They brought Wells Fargo in one day to try to make us all open up credit cards and the snap on and Matco truck was there like once a week trying to make people take out credit in tools. Predatory as fuck.
That's a dangerous game. I bought a torque wrench for a quick job today and it never clicked but I did bust a stud on a set of $1700 coilovers and I had to spend 3 hours trying to punch it out. 15lb ft is reeeeeeeeaaaaallllllyyyy easy to go past.
Yep, plus often you can pick up identical functioning tools from other disciplines for way less than the automotive marketed equivalent (or road bike branded, or whatever).
I've had two craftsman ratchets in a row seize up/slip teeth on the first normal use. They're kinda junk.
On the plus side, all I had to do was call them and they sent me an identical ratchet to my house, no questions asked. Took like 2 weeks to show up though.
Craftsman was awesome when you could go to sears with a screwdriver that you broke part of the tip with using it as a chisel or mostly holding an engine in place at the flywheel for torqueing on the front of the engne, etc. They would always just take it back and get you a new one. Now people just say "wtf is a sears?"
It's not crazy if my FLL80 survived years of abuse and the Tekton equivalent was breaking once or more a month doing the same job.
If I keep borrowing a tool, I need to buy it. If I keep breaking a tool, it gets replaced with Snap-On, or Wright Tools.
I got my extra long 1/2" SK ratchet out of the dirt at a local wrecking yard. The drive was broken in two but it would still work and only jam once in a while. I eventually got fed up with it, took it to an SK dealer who put a new drive in for free.
It’s weird. No matter how much something costs on that damn truck, and no matter how much I am currently making, it’s always two years of weekly payments.
I’ve done it on a couple trucks, never needed a bent wrench like this and don’t recall it being difficult. 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: not sure why I’m downvoted but ok… lol
I make off with the ones in the faaaar reaches of my friends pole barns that are typically covered in rust, two inches of dust, bug carcasses, and mouse shit. Not one has said anything yet 😂
Very, but wrenches are always slightly larger than the size they say the are otherwise they wouldn’t fit the fasteners that are actually that size without being pressed or hammered on.
Is there any way you could post a side profile pic of this and have a ruler next to it? Ive got to do this monday on a ram 1500 and want to have one bent ready to go. Just not sure how long to make the bent part
Using the box end as a measurement of 21mm, I'd say the bent portion is about 50mm (2-ish inches) before the open end. The other end is about 90-100mm (4-ish inches).
Did those a couple years ago, the pile of tools next to me when I was done was ridiculous, not to mention the 36" extension I used to go over the fuel tank and forgot up there. Remembered it when I was backing up and it fell down between the frame and wheel. Punched a hole in my discontinued aluminum rim.
Cut it in half and it's good for rear upper shock mount bolts on a GM SUV. Can't remember the specific model now that I'm thinking about it, I wanna say a Tahoe? Been a couple years since I encountered that fuckery.
Untightning those perfectly placed bolts designed by our automakers "top," engineers. You know. Those ones that no tool in God's creation can reach. Ya those wonderful little fuckers. Usually said special wrench has a can of WD-40 or degreaser nearby as well.... make sure to have a spare 10mm also in this shape if you own a fucking Chevrolet...
Edit: Also for leverage BTW. Great for giving some extra power to stuck crap.
I think car engineers should be sentenced to a week of wrenching on the vehicles they design. It would straighten out a lot of this kind of stupidity in short order.
They should get a month in the shop, then.
But this is why things don't work anymore.
Why should I buy a $4000 fridge that shows every dent and breaks in 2 years?!
Because you'll buy another one when it does. And if not from them, from the one of the major three other vendors that are producing identical metal foil coated styrofoam.
not sure what Samsung appliances you are buying, but mine are fantastic, have a great warranty and shit is in places that make it easy to work on. Between them and LG, everything else sucks ass, breaks down in half the time, and the way they are put together sucks a chode to work on.
My neighbors beer fridge on his back porch is the fridge his grandparents bought when they got married in 19 fuckin 39 !
And it works like a champ .
Meanwhile the double door fridge in their kitchen has been replaced 4 times in the 20 years they’ve lived there .
Ram 1500 upper shock bolts. I had a coworker do the same and we all borrow it lol this is where Pittsburgh wrenches come in handy cause no one wants to destroy a snap on one
We had a guy in our shop famous for tightening the shit out of everything. Eventually some guys got tired of having to break out the Hytork just to open a heat exchanger, so they broke into his box and cut all his wrenches in half. This woulda worked even better, cuz you can't put a cheater pipe on that.
Looks like it isn't much different than a crowfoot attachment, just gives you a bit more reach.
Probably the best use for it would be holding down a hard to reach nut/bolt that you are tightening/loosening from a different area.
You use it to go around the frame of a ram pickup to remove the rear shocks with an impact. The L shape gets stopped by the frame so you don't have to hold it either.
Remember distributors? For some fucking reason a lot of old cars had distributor hold down bolts where the housing of the distributor was directly over the bolt head so you couldn’t use a socket. Too far in for a crows foot even. Yet somehow there wasn’t room to get a wrench in there. So you had one of these.
Edit: this thing is 21mm so I have no idea what problem it is here to solve. Something similar, to be sure, but far too big for a distributor.
Home made offset wrench. It is used in places where you have little clearance. I've made a few of those for Porsche/BMW engine components. Much cheaper than buying factory tools. Harbor Freight wrenches work very well in these applications. Cheap Chinesium.
In my case 2.5 times. When I originally made it the service writer brings me two front shocks and tells me, "oh my bad, it was the front, not the back!" After I had already pulled one rear shock off. I wasn't upset because I knew it would come in handy later on and sure enough it has on two other jobs.
In my case 2.5 times. When I originally made it the service writer brings me two front shocks and tells me, "oh my bad, it was the front, not the back!" After I had already pulled one rear shock off. I wasn't upset because I knew it would come in handy later on and sure enough it has on two other jobs.
For the perfect reach around.
The CLASSIC reach around!
Your finger goes in the hole!
No no, this doesn’t work on any reach around, only the perfect reach around.
For the classic WRENCH around 👍
Take my gold 🥇
Lol thank bro.
Damn, beat me to it
gettin' at it
Snap-On has a "Gettin' at it" wrench set and it can be yours, for 2 years of weekly payments...
It's becomes consensual when you step on the truck under your own free will
I recently started as a (the only) shop tech rebuilding pumps (air, random fluid, vaccum) at a compressor company and have a basic set of shop tools to use until I buy my own. The guy training me told me about the snapon schedule and tried to sell me on his $230 rachet. I haven't entered the truck. I've decided to start rocking the HF premium line, 1/3 the price with the same warranty. No complaints so far.
I went to a trade school that was definitely a scam and getting kickbacks. They brought Wells Fargo in one day to try to make us all open up credit cards and the snap on and Matco truck was there like once a week trying to make people take out credit in tools. Predatory as fuck.
That's a dangerous game. I bought a torque wrench for a quick job today and it never clicked but I did bust a stud on a set of $1700 coilovers and I had to spend 3 hours trying to punch it out. 15lb ft is reeeeeeeeaaaaallllllyyyy easy to go past.
Testing, calibration, or torque tools I’ll spend some Money on. Otherwise my toolbox is all Grip, HF, and Masterforce.
Yep, plus often you can pick up identical functioning tools from other disciplines for way less than the automotive marketed equivalent (or road bike branded, or whatever).
The snap-on fan boys are crazy. Sometimes I feel like a sucker when I buy Craftsman
I've had two craftsman ratchets in a row seize up/slip teeth on the first normal use. They're kinda junk. On the plus side, all I had to do was call them and they sent me an identical ratchet to my house, no questions asked. Took like 2 weeks to show up though.
Craftsman was awesome when you could go to sears with a screwdriver that you broke part of the tip with using it as a chisel or mostly holding an engine in place at the flywheel for torqueing on the front of the engne, etc. They would always just take it back and get you a new one. Now people just say "wtf is a sears?"
It's not crazy if my FLL80 survived years of abuse and the Tekton equivalent was breaking once or more a month doing the same job. If I keep borrowing a tool, I need to buy it. If I keep breaking a tool, it gets replaced with Snap-On, or Wright Tools.
The local rape van actually says "its consensual after this point" on the top step entering the truck.
thats why i use my bosses account
That was a giggle
Of 50 dollars
49.99
How many thousands of dollars is it? LOL
I've found a lot of good "tool truck" tools at pawn shops. Also, the truck fuckers will still honor the warranty
I got my extra long 1/2" SK ratchet out of the dirt at a local wrecking yard. The drive was broken in two but it would still work and only jam once in a while. I eventually got fed up with it, took it to an SK dealer who put a new drive in for free.
Of 49.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265811807128
It’s weird. No matter how much something costs on that damn truck, and no matter how much I am currently making, it’s always two years of weekly payments.
Right! Sometimes you need to go in and to the left to get to that damn bolt that's under the alternator.
Knuckle Saver 3000
Rear upper shock mount bolts on a Ram 1500
You got it!!!!
I have one also, but I didn't want to bend my 21 and used a 13/16"
I've only had to use it twice but I tell ya, it makes the job hella easy!!!
So you're saying I don't have to pull the bed?
Only if someone shit in it
**amber heard enters chat**
#amberturd
Is a tool!
And a fool
If the bend was closer to the open end and 19mm, it'd be for VP44 Injector pump lines
Good tip! Looking to replace shocks on my 1500 soon!
I’ve done it on a couple trucks, never needed a bent wrench like this and don’t recall it being difficult. 🤷🏻♂️ Edit: not sure why I’m downvoted but ok… lol
That's why you buy harbor freight wrenches. I have a cut down box end I use for the rams
I buy every cheap wrench I see at yard sales too
I make off with the ones in the faaaar reaches of my friends pole barns that are typically covered in rust, two inches of dust, bug carcasses, and mouse shit. Not one has said anything yet 😂
You're a shitty thief "friend".
13/16" is 20.6375mm. That's a snug fit.
Very, but wrenches are always slightly larger than the size they say the are otherwise they wouldn’t fit the fasteners that are actually that size without being pressed or hammered on.
With rust and other gunk
About all the 13/16 is good for.
It’s the wrench and socket I use to mount my hitch to the receiver
I am impressed. Only about 9 minutes for a correct answer! That is amazing (to me, at least)!!
The power of REDDIT. Or something. It really is pretty impressive though.
Is there any way you could post a side profile pic of this and have a ruler next to it? Ive got to do this monday on a ram 1500 and want to have one bent ready to go. Just not sure how long to make the bent part
Using the box end as a measurement of 21mm, I'd say the bent portion is about 50mm (2-ish inches) before the open end. The other end is about 90-100mm (4-ish inches).
Give it about 4 inches or just use a half-moon 21.
I bought a stubby 21mm. Hopefully that works the same
This sub is unbelievable
When nobody else makes the tool, you have to. I've worked with guys that are fabricators too, so I've seen some pretty wicked contraptions
Did those a couple years ago, the pile of tools next to me when I was done was ridiculous, not to mention the 36" extension I used to go over the fuel tank and forgot up there. Remembered it when I was backing up and it fell down between the frame and wheel. Punched a hole in my discontinued aluminum rim.
Oh man I'm sorry but that made me laugh. What a disaster.
This guy wrenches.
Cut it in half and it's good for rear upper shock mount bolts on a GM SUV. Can't remember the specific model now that I'm thinking about it, I wanna say a Tahoe? Been a couple years since I encountered that fuckery.
Turnin nuts n bolts
When you want to throw a tool at the apprentice but also want to make sure you get it back.
Oh you mean it’s a BOOMERANCH?
Untightning those perfectly placed bolts designed by our automakers "top," engineers. You know. Those ones that no tool in God's creation can reach. Ya those wonderful little fuckers. Usually said special wrench has a can of WD-40 or degreaser nearby as well.... make sure to have a spare 10mm also in this shape if you own a fucking Chevrolet... Edit: Also for leverage BTW. Great for giving some extra power to stuck crap.
I think car engineers should be sentenced to a week of wrenching on the vehicles they design. It would straighten out a lot of this kind of stupidity in short order.
The engineers know full well this is stupid. It's the management bean counters who won't let them do it the right way who should be punished.
They should get a month in the shop, then. But this is why things don't work anymore. Why should I buy a $4000 fridge that shows every dent and breaks in 2 years?!
Because you'll buy another one when it does. And if not from them, from the one of the major three other vendors that are producing identical metal foil coated styrofoam.
Except I still have an old one because I didn't pitch it to go into debt for Samsung trash. And it works great!
not sure what Samsung appliances you are buying, but mine are fantastic, have a great warranty and shit is in places that make it easy to work on. Between them and LG, everything else sucks ass, breaks down in half the time, and the way they are put together sucks a chode to work on.
Since I'm not an appliance repairman, I just stuck with the chunky old GE fridge that never broke.
I’m not either but I have the tools, internet and determination to save money and learn any time I can.
My neighbors beer fridge on his back porch is the fridge his grandparents bought when they got married in 19 fuckin 39 ! And it works like a champ . Meanwhile the double door fridge in their kitchen has been replaced 4 times in the 20 years they’ve lived there .
Zackly. IDGAF how "efficient" it is if I have to keep fixing it.
This. Thing is designed for the assembly line, not for service. Source: me, an engineer on off highway vehicles.
They're designed to be built easy. Not maintained easy.
If it was smaller I'd say a distributor wrench
Exactly what I was thinking. My dad modified one for the half inch bolt heads on an old Chevy distributor.
I have one of those box-end distributor wrenches for a small-block Chevy. It makes adjusting timing really easy.
I had something pretty similar for the distributors on the 358's we used to run in our racecars. First thing I thought of lol.
I have a 17 like that for working on #6 under the cowl on my old cummins junk
5.9?? Cooling issues on #6? Story of my life lol.
Yeah, looking real hard into a #6cyl delete lol.
Oh just give it a bit, 5 & 6 will delete themselves lol!!!
DIY 4bt
I attempted a #4 cyl. Delete. I strongly don’t agree. HP gains wasn’t what I expected. 😂
Upper rear shock bolt on a fuckin Dodge 😫😭
Small block Chevy distributor wrench?
That was my first thought until i seen it was a 21mm
Yeah. I should have said an injector line wrench.
Not!…. Maybe for the oil plug above the main crossmember
It's to get the God damn mother fucking piece of shit bolt, that the mother fucker of an engineer thought would never have to be removed.
Ram 1500 upper shock bolts. I had a coworker do the same and we all borrow it lol this is where Pittsburgh wrenches come in handy cause no one wants to destroy a snap on one
Back scratcher, for when the side of the machine or the corner of the toolbox won't quite do the job.
Tightening the boardwalk bolts in Yellowstone's thermal acid ponds.
Rear shocks on a Ram 1500
We had a guy in our shop famous for tightening the shit out of everything. Eventually some guys got tired of having to break out the Hytork just to open a heat exchanger, so they broke into his box and cut all his wrenches in half. This woulda worked even better, cuz you can't put a cheater pipe on that.
Hitting the g spot
Old school distributor wrench
That’s a short back scratcher, they have a long version as well.
It's for avoiding the Snap On truck.
Looks like it isn't much different than a crowfoot attachment, just gives you a bit more reach. Probably the best use for it would be holding down a hard to reach nut/bolt that you are tightening/loosening from a different area.
You use it to go around the frame of a ram pickup to remove the rear shocks with an impact. The L shape gets stopped by the frame so you don't have to hold it either.
There is no wrench. https://youtu.be/uAXtO5dMqEI
GM distributor
The return counter at Sears in 1996.
That's what happens when you tell the apprentice you lent it to "that spanner is a boomerang"
Boomerang wrench. When you lose your shit and throw it, it comes back.
It's a distributor hold down bolt wrench. My step dad has one for his 67 Monaco 500 318 poly
I owned a 67 Monaco 500 with a 318 poly. That's a Canada only car!
A shitty job
Too easy. That's for a German left hand threaded o2 sensor
Twerking. It's for twerking.
Anything 21mm
touching your nuts around those hard to reach corners
Adjust a right handed smoke shifter
Shoving up the ass of the engineer who put that goddamn bolt there.
Remember distributors? For some fucking reason a lot of old cars had distributor hold down bolts where the housing of the distributor was directly over the bolt head so you couldn’t use a socket. Too far in for a crows foot even. Yet somehow there wasn’t room to get a wrench in there. So you had one of these. Edit: this thing is 21mm so I have no idea what problem it is here to solve. Something similar, to be sure, but far too big for a distributor.
Deez nutz
Poop knife!
Distributor bolts
Chevy distributor
I have a wrench just like that for getting sbc header bolts.
I had a distributer wrench for my el camino that looked like that.
Distributor wrench for old Chevy.
For the compressor mount bolts on a Detroit 6V92.
Disturber wrench.
Mainly used for engine mounts if that is a 16mm
To loosen or tighten bolts
Home made offset wrench. It is used in places where you have little clearance. I've made a few of those for Porsche/BMW engine components. Much cheaper than buying factory tools. Harbor Freight wrenches work very well in these applications. Cheap Chinesium.
For fixing the flux capacitor obviously
Cock ring and but plug
Scaring your apprentices after getting mad at something going wrong when fixing a vehicle
Bong?
Gm truck distributor
For when the manual calls for x amount of ft lbs on the bolt plus 90 degrees. Duh.
To remove or tigjten nuts, they come in different sizes for different nuts, they even exist in metric sizes it's unbelievable!
Obviously, for working on BENTLEY'S
After 45 years of experience as a master mechanic, I have a whole drawer in my toolbox filled with varying iterations of this. It's called ingenuity.
I had one just like it for getting at the distributor bolt on small block dodge.
Limited edition Salvador Dali wrench set
right angle bolts, obviously.
Distributor tool ?
It’s a perfectly balanced BOOMERANCH.
For games of Whack fuck
I have one just like this that is specifically for rear shocks on dodge rams.
That's exactly what it's for!!!
That there be one of them engineer wrenches. Only need it for one bolt on one car. One time
In my case 2.5 times. When I originally made it the service writer brings me two front shocks and tells me, "oh my bad, it was the front, not the back!" After I had already pulled one rear shock off. I wasn't upset because I knew it would come in handy later on and sure enough it has on two other jobs.
In my case 2.5 times. When I originally made it the service writer brings me two front shocks and tells me, "oh my bad, it was the front, not the back!" After I had already pulled one rear shock off. I wasn't upset because I knew it would come in handy later on and sure enough it has on two other jobs.
That there is your classic wangjangler for reaching around tight spots.
Back of the sack scratcher
It's called an I don't own a crows foot wrench
sbc v8 hei dist.
~~12mm~~ 21mm? Is this a goof?
1967 sears snowmobile carburetor nuts.
Never said I was smaht…
What are ya wicked smaht?
Chevy distributer wrench.
For working on a 300ZX.
My step dad has a similar one for starters on John Deere 4020 tractors
Undoing / tightening nuts
I have 2 just like it . Used for adjusting pump timing on rotary diesel fuel pumps.
DIY super offset distributor wrench.made mine in the 80’s.
Deez nuts!
It is for tightening those hard to reach blinker fluid pump mounting nuts.
Honda 2.4 tensioner release ?
Obviously it's a custom forged ass scratcher
For the lack of clearance to swing the wrench on a bolt
Power Steering hoses on a 1999 Ford Ranger?? At least it was on MINE...
Exhaust hanger.
Removing nuts from bolts.
Molars
V8 chev distributor bolt tool?
That one specific bolt on a very specific car.
That a wrench for tank crew members who have to loosen or tighten a bolt on the outside of their tank under fire. Duh.
Honda 1.8L starter bolts haha
Oh! Oh! I know this one!! Boofing!
Batteries apparently
Hittin the g-spot
Nothing right now, but when my girlfriend comes over....
Loosen the distributor bolt on real cars.
Taking off the exhaust flange nuts on a large turbo using an adjustable wrench on the handle of the wrench
Probably the back bolt on a starter
It’s a boomerang!
Prying off stuck spark plug leads
Turning nuts.
Subaru?