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Unusual /tool thread
- Thread starter ryoken
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Anybody know what this one is?
Gus
For when the stud comes with the nut on truck tires.
smalltruckbigcid
1/2 ton status
Slang name is a porkchop, comes from the shape. Some semis use an inner and outer nut to secure the duals. Outer holds the the outer tire on. When you go to remove the outer sometimes it spins the inner nut loose at the same time. When that happens, hopefully it was just on one stud, you remove the rest of the nuts and that one as the last one. Switch to the square drive socket and slip that tool over the outer nut and that little foot at the end drop into the lugnut hole next to the one you are working on. Step on it with your foot and tighten the inner lugnut untill it drops out of the outer.
It has become an old school tool as most trucks now have gone to a unimount style or also called hub piloted wheel. It only uses 10 lugnuts per wheel position instead of the 20 that a regular budd wheel used. Also the left side wheels were left hand thread. Budd inner capnuts are famous for breaking off and being a large pain to remove
It has become an old school tool as most trucks now have gone to a unimount style or also called hub piloted wheel. It only uses 10 lugnuts per wheel position instead of the 20 that a regular budd wheel used. Also the left side wheels were left hand thread. Budd inner capnuts are famous for breaking off and being a large pain to remove
BIngo! Sounds like you have had some personal experience. For the most part I prefer hub piloted wheels but I did like the ability to change an outer dual on a Budd wheel simply by driving it up on a block and pulling the outer nuts. That was one area where the problems started, people would pull the outer nuts, which could loosen the inner nuts, and just put a new wheel on without retightening the inners.
Gus
learn something new every day....
when i worked at the resto shop, i used to feel so sorry for our heavy equipment mechanic that did all the D9's, loaders, etc, his Snap On bill was freakin HUGE! all that 3/4 and 1" drive stuff, big wrenches, torque multipliers, etc...
when i worked at the resto shop, i used to feel so sorry for our heavy equipment mechanic that did all the D9's, loaders, etc, his Snap On bill was freakin HUGE! all that 3/4 and 1" drive stuff, big wrenches, torque multipliers, etc...
Here's another one, pretty useful.
Gus
Gus
looks like some sort of blind hole depth gauge.....
I didn't show it in the pic but there is a piece of wire inside with a hook on the end. When the spring is compressed the hook is exposed enabling it to go around various items then, once the spring tension is released it grabs onto whatever the hook was around. It was commonly used to remove a small hairpin clip inside a dwls governor on a Detroit that was sometimes referred to by names other than hairpin clip when it dropped out of sight during removal.
Gus
Gus
i have one of those flexible retractable 3 jaw tools... works well for me when a magnet wont do.. i was gonna guess retrieval tool, but it looked like a single center piece...
here's a couple goofy ones....
my NASA modified crowsfeet.... 3" and 3 1/2" with 3/8 drive....
and my trusty old rochester carb adjusters...
and of course the infamous Carling switch tool...
i'll post a couple more tomorrow...
here's a couple goofy ones....
my NASA modified crowsfeet.... 3" and 3 1/2" with 3/8 drive....
and my trusty old rochester carb adjusters...
and of course the infamous Carling switch tool...
i'll post a couple more tomorrow...
cabledawg
Secret Squirrel
Not automotive, but still goofy looking. We used these for splicing telephone cable. One wire at a time, but since it uses a jig, the splice is consistent and fast. Just gotta watch the fingers and palms. The device ratchets to a certain pressure to ensure the crimps are even and secure, but you get your palm in the wrong spot and YIKES!
