Tools, tools, tools....

[turdmagnet]

I have all the basic tools together in my box: ratchets, wrenches, etc...and I want to start gathering the more esoteric tools that would be specific to my 74' Blazer. What tools do you carry with you in your truck? I don't mean the obvious, garden variety tools like open end wrenches and the like. I'm interested in the oddball tools that you don't normally find in the sears catalog that have made the difference between driving out or spending $700 to get towed back to civilization. It doesn't even have to be a tool per se, it can be some device you improvised or a special tool that you built yourself for a specific job that you only needed once in your life. What specialty tools have you ever needed to get your a$$ out of a jam?

 

[mostwanted]

I presume you mean wheeling?
I can think of a couple:

hub sockets
ball joint press/u joint
torx drivers
premier power welder!
air compressor
hy-lift jack
tow straps
tree saver

most importantly: DOn't wheel alone!

 

[Leper]

A big honkin ratchet strap 4" wide 50,000# capacity. After the middle of my draglink hit my axle tube, I tied the Strap around a tree, fed it over my front beam and attached it to my bent draglink. I was able to get it straight enough that it lipped over my highsteer tierod and let me drive an hour back to my house.

Never leave the house without duct tape and JB weld. I have stopped a brake line leak with the JB and used the duct tape to fix a radiator hose and drove with it for over a hundred miles.