Most essential tool

Well for me its got to be my pit (is that a tool?) but failing that, I've got a 4ft Snap-On breaker bar which is invaluable for undoing bolts that have been done up for 40 plus years!
 
I had never seen a packet of McVitie's biscuits before. If you have watched "Taggart", you will thus know where "The biscuit" comes from.

Ron.
 
arthuy said:
For me it is my MOD surplus Britool torque wrench and Bolt grip set.
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I have quite a few MOD surplus tools from my previous life..... :D

So many useful tools in the kit these days but for me it has to be the bench vice. Can't beat it for clamping and pressing and squeezing and hammering on etc......

pilkie said:
One of my most favourite tools is my BIG lump hammer! :D
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A close second for me :D

Mind you, the shovel is proving pretty useful at the moment...........

Dave
 
Bing bing bing.....Youv'e cracked it, that certainly has to be the best tool, though here in NZ the number is a different one and the name is slightly different too. :mrgreen:

Graeme
 
Rover2000nut said:
For sure the big hammer.......if you don't need the hammer it must be electrical
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In my experience a hammer is good for making generators and starter motors function. I went to look at a Rover to buy once, I was getting a few tools together. Intuition told me to take a hammer. I got to this Rover, and the lady tried to start it up, and the starter motor would not engage. She told me to get under it and "do something to it." Out came the hammer, and bang bang on the starter motor, and then away it went.

James.
 
My favourite tool will be (when I get one) one of those tools for pushing brake pistons back in to callipers. It is a sort of screw thread with two flat plates on. The number of times I have struggled pushing pistons back with the wrong tools is countless!
 

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Hello,
My fav is the ball joint splitter. Ive never known a tool that can be used for so many things, including ball joints.

Here it is being used for removing a viscous unit:
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I've used it for auxilary belt tensioning also.
 
Does tool box count as a tool? :p
It holds so many important items, I'd struggle without a few of them :LOL:
 
My fav and most essential (it lives in my top pocket) is a streamlight torch, its like a pen but with a superbright LED in the end, it gives a good amount of light and is small enough to fit inside bolt holes etc to inspect. only issue is trying to find AAAA batteries to fit in it which are only available on ebay at a reasonable price

well theres that and a good old Zeus book as well..... :mrgreen:
 
I think my idea for my most essential tool changes as I go through different bits of the car.

It was a choice between the welder and a joggler when I was doing the welding...

and a sandblaster and hot air gun when removing rust/underseal/paint/and other stuff...

and now it's going back together, I have to say it still a choice between a pair of special pliers for doing up those bullet clips, my 21" lift trolley jack (I can jack Sparky high enough to put him onto ramps), and Richard Taylor's engine hoist :oops: oh thats not mine :shock:

Out of all of the above, I think it's got to be the high lift trolley jack. I used to hate jacking the car up, then dropping it onto blocks, then finding another block to put the jack on, or put onto the jack, then jacking it up again, then finding it won't quite go onto the ramps, so seaching for another plank to go onto the blocks, etc etc, and that is just for one wheel :shock:

Richard
 
My favourite is the one that's got me out of all sorts of tight spots. I call it 'Magic Metric Spanner'. It was in the glove box when I got the car, looks at least 30 years old and is worn to nothing, but somehow it manages to fit just about every single nut under the bonnet!! Even the ones where you'd put money on it not fitting!

I keep meaning to check one of these days what size it originally was, but I just think it's magic and shrinks to whatever size I need at the time (like Sauron's ring... too geeky, I'm sorry!). Can you patent wizardry??!
 
Hi guys
favorite tools . Here we go then . Toss up between three . Sawn off ball pien hammer , years old , nice weight , named "The persuader " . Chain type oil filter remover bought in the eighties . Can be used for all sorts of other bodges . Thought i'd lost it once but it surfaced again , nearly cried ( not really ) last but not least my rampant rabbit ! bought at Ann Summers party 5 years ago . I won't give any more details ! Am i black flagged / banned yet ? hope not just on a high from rumbling about today .
stina
 
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