New tool!

Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:52 pm

Well not really new, just something I found. WTF is it??? Wow

Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:55 pm

Gay......................

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:41 am

sport wrote:

Gay......................

???

Are you bringing homophobia to a whole new level? Laughing

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:46 am

The 45 degree offset makes the socket turn faster.
If you turn it round, it will go slower.
Obvious.

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:54 am

whelan45 wrote:

The 45 degree offset makes the socket turn faster.
If you turn it round, it will go slower.
Obvious.

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:58 am

whelan45 wrote:

The 45 degree offset makes the socket turn faster.
If you turn it round, it will go slower.
Obvious.

You should see mine. Instead of a 45 degree offset, mine has a 315 degree offset. You should see how easy it is to turn that thing.

I'm thinking about getting one that has a 405 degree offset. You don't even have to turn the socket wrench, that sucker just tightens itself.

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:01 am

How the hell you get a socket wrench on there?

It's 1/2" on one end, 3/8" ona other Head Banger

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:08 am

You would need a gender bender toget it to mate up to a drive Wow

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:09 am

It's used to prevent you losing your two most widely used sockets. For example, if you most often use a 10mm and 12mm socket, then you put them on each end.

This helps when your lying under your car or working on your bike and you're fumbling around for that socket you need. It's simple physics (combined with a little garage voodoo) that the first socket you fumble for and pick up will never be the size you need, and this tool overcomes this problem. When you pick up the socket you don't need, the one you do need will be on the other end!

It also helps you find lost sockets - for example, when you absolutely need the 10mm, you'll spend 30 minutes rifling through your toolbox only to find the 12mm you lost three weeks ago (but don't currently need). Again, with this tool, when that occurs your missing socket (that you actually need) will be on the other end!

The twist in the shaft adds even more functionality as it staggers the size markings on the sockets - again, garage voodoo dictates that any socket on the floor or in the toolbox will have it's size marking downwards (where you cannot read it). This tool ensures that of your two most commonly used sockets, one will always have it's size marking visible!

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:24 am

pontiacstogo wrote:

It's used to prevent you loosing your two most widely used sockets. For example, if you most often use a 10mm and 12mm socket, then you put them on each end.

This helps when your lying under your car or working on your bike and you're fumbling around for that socket you need. It's simply physics (combined with a little garage voodoo) that the first socket you fumble for and pick up will never be the size you need, and this tool overcomes this problem. When you pick up the socket you don't need, the one you do need will be on the other end!

It also helps you find lost sockets - for example, when you absolutely need the 10mm, you'll spend 30 minutes rifling through your toolbox only to find the 12mm you lost three weeks ago (but don't currently need). Again, with this tool, when that occurs your missing socket (that you actually need) will be on the other end!

The twist in the shaft adds even more functionality as it staggers the size markings on the sockets - again, garage voodoo dictates that any socket on the floor or in the toolbox will have it's size marking downwards (where you cannot read it). This tool ensures that of your two most commonly used sockets, one will always have it's size marking visible!

Wow, I've seen some BS in my time, but that one takes the cake. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:30 am

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:31 am

Gene,

All fun and games aside, that is the indexing pin that holds the intake cam to the sprocket. It would be in your best interests to get it back into the motor ASAP. Try just dropping it in the oil fill spout, it'll eventually make its way into position.

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:36 am

Oh good, because mine vanished! Last time I pulled the pan all I found was the damned washer in the bottom of it! That was the last straw, and I wound up stuffing my cases with all NOS and high performance stuff! And you say that's all I needed? JEEBERZ! Laughing

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:45 am

Ive seen it before and had a full set that its a part of.
My dad gave me a toolbox once and there was a socket/ratchet set that had a thin ratchet that the unfinished end fits into. Also came with screwdriver attachments ect.ect. The ratchet had a flip lever on the side to change directions in tight spots.
It was a cool tool. Wish i knew where it was.

Hawk Joined: Sep 16, 2005 Posts: 410 Location: Sikeston,Mo

pontiacstogo wrote:

It's used to prevent you losing your two most widely used sockets. For example, if you most often use a 10mm and 12mm socket, then you put them on each end.

This helps when your lying under your car or working on your bike and you're fumbling around for that socket you need. It's simple physics (combined with a little garage voodoo) that the first socket you fumble for and pick up will never be the size you need, and this tool overcomes this problem. When you pick up the socket you don't need, the one you do need will be on the other end!

It also helps you find lost sockets - for example, when you absolutely need the 10mm, you'll spend 30 minutes rifling through your toolbox only to find the 12mm you lost three weeks ago (but don't currently need). Again, with this tool, when that occurs your missing socket (that you actually need) will be on the other end!

The twist in the shaft adds even more functionality as it staggers the size markings on the sockets - again, garage voodoo dictates that any socket on the floor or in the toolbox will have it's size marking downwards (where you cannot read it). This tool ensures that of your two most commonly used sockets, one will always have it's size marking visible!

This has to take the annual bullshit award. I have never seen so much bullshit in the same place in so many sentences in my life Shocked

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:15 am

It reminds me of the time I did a frame up resoration on a Hardley... Took the frame to Dr. John to be straightened, and a whole bunch of other parts for him to send to powder coating. Just for the hell of it, I threw in an air conditioner bracket from my '66 Lincoln. It looked just like a rear brake torque arm, just a little different size.

Got all the stuff back and took it over to my bud David's place to put it back together. I had him going in circles for days Laughing

He had been fitting stuff while I wasn't there and was all worked up, he was the Harley expert Laughing

I finally told him what it was and he says "No, you're not that funny!" Laughing

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:39 am

It is of course a Wig Wom for a Gooses Bridal.

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:10 pm

That is the tool used to check one's drive shaft axle fluid on a rear wheel drive vehicle. The cap for the fluid contained inside the drive shaft often looks like a rectangular tab. To check this fluid the operator must place the flat end of the tool against the side of the cap. The rounded end of the tool, much resembling an extension, is then hit sharply with a 2 lb hammer to knock the cap off. The fluid may now be checked. Any vibrations felt after this process are a result of improper drive shaft axle fluid levels and must be corrected by evening out transmission fluid and drive shaft axle fluid levels.

For instructions on removing transmission fluid to match the level inside your drive shaft please see your vehicle specific owners manual.

Laughing

Man I gotta use that the first day of next semester.

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:12 pm

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:37 am

I think I've seen that before somewhere. That is only 1 part of the puzzle though, you are missing the open end square ratcheting part. From what I can remember my grandpa had something like that. The ratchet goes on the smaller end. You would pull the ratchet off and put on a socket to get a better grip to turn the bolt/nut by hand then use the ratchet again if you needed to.

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:45 am

Quote:

Try just dropping it in the oil fill spout, it'll eventually make its way into position.

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:30 am

TomStrasser wrote:

You would need a gender bender toget it to mate up to a drive Wow

That was exactly my point as well......................GAY!!! Shocked

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:34 am

Oh sure... Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:00 am

Ok, here is one for you guys to learn from.

I had an old 240Z and needed a wrench to adjust the distrib. The offset wrench I bought had two ends with square socket heads and a center shaft piece with two socket holes. This looks like that kind of idea, so it must be for a specialized set of sockets or crowfoot wrenches.

Jose

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:34 pm

And there I was thinking it was a tool that you used to put the giggling pin back on a laughing shaft.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:35 pm

Pretty much! Laughing

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:09 pm

Gene,

That is the tool I lost last year. Glad you found it. I had a 10' cheater bar on the end of my torque wrench trying to get my valve cover tight enough to stop it from leaking with the non-OEM gasket I just got offa Cheap-Bay. I thought I felt something twist loose and then............ bling........... the dang thing flew up in the air and I never coud find it again. "Garage Voodoo" at work. I would say that it is just my extension which got a little twisted due to using my BFH on tht end of that cheater bar. Embarassed

I just never figured it would fly THAT far!!

Really Mad

Please send it home to its rightful owner.... Laughing

Dave

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:41 pm

OK Dave, I'll see if I can fling it back when I'm bearin down on my front cam chain tensioner lock nut Twisted Evil