Ford Specialty Rotunda tools

[97ranger4x4]

Just curious but as I look throught my service Manuals for my truck it always refers to Rotunda tools by a specific number. Now since I am just competent enought to do basic repairs, their is no need for me to purchase something I will only use once. Unfortunatly, I often do not even know what these tools look like or how they work.

So does anyone know of a site that lists Rotunda tools and what a compariable tool that you can pick up at any automotive or hardware store? Also where can you even get these tools? From a Ford dealership I assume?

I guess I am just bored right now. I have nothing to fix...

 

[MAKG]

If you want to see what Rotunda tools look like, E-bay sometimes has them.

I don't own a single one. You don't need them. You just need to get decent at figuring it out. Sometimes, it's half the fun.

There are very often much cheaper alternatives. Sometimes you have to make your own (like the 2.9L cam bearing driver I made as part of a lathe project), or modify something else (like a hefty two jaw puller I use for transmission parts).

 

[97ranger4x4]

yeh like I said, I will never need anything that complicated, at least I hope. I guess I was just interested on what they looked like. Ill check ebay when I am bored. I for some reason find myself reading through my shop manuals when I am bored. If only i could do that with my business textbooks....

 

[AllanD]

It gets really bad whjen you need to buy an $1200 tool (yes really)
and you eventually decide you need it SO MUCH that you MUST order
another before they discontinue it on you....

Redefining PAIN.

Then there's spending $300 on a tool actually getting it and discovering
that you could have done a FAR better job of making it.

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[kamps989]

If only i could do that with my business textbooks....

Hahaha I find myself doing the same thing (reading up on irrelevant stuff). Only for me its my Networking Textbook.

 

[razrwild]

it always seemed to me that ford was great at doing that, requiring special tools that you'd need on only a ford. I have to agree that modifying an existing tool to do the job is doable and half the fun or you could do a harbor freight run to find something close to it and try to make a replacement tool. Easiest way to find a website like you're talking about is to do a google search on the tool # they give you