The dumbest tools you "own".

[Snoranger]

Have you ever had a zerk fitting that wouldn’t take grease? You replace the fitting and it still won’t... reach for this:

Fill it with some diesel fuel. Attach it to the zerk and hit it with a hammer.
Left to right...
Aluminum round stock, machines for 2 o rings.
Brass pipe.
Pipe reducers
Missing...
zerk fitting adapter... sometimes you remove the adapter and the zerk, then just thread it into the hole.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Left to right...

Only while doing a handstand...

 

[91stranger]

I think he means from right to left... Or am I the only one that noticed this?

 

[Grumpaw]

I have an honest to gosh left handed tape measure. Bought it from a clearence bin years ago and didn't realize till I got home and tried it, it was for "lefties"
Numbers are rightside up only if you measure from right to left, whereas regular tapes measure from left to right, and the # are right side up.
Grumpaw

 

[racsan]

2 peices of new angle iron, 2 ft long with a hole in the very middle. bolt them to rotors on both sides of a vehicle to set toe-in. works well. before I “made” this tool, I had took apart the bottom of my shop press to use those peices of angle iron.

 

[4.0blue98]

I have a box of tools from my grandfather. I've used many but some I don't even have a clue what they're for. I'd say they're from the 20's and 30's.

I have a multi-use engine analyzer/diagnostic meter probably from the 50's that I use on my project. Probably easier ways to set dwell etc but not as much fun.

If you ask my wife this questions, she'd just point at me...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

AR15 front takedown pin installation tool.

Used once as you assemble the lower receiver... and then never again on that rifle.

 

[Curious Hound]

I think he means from right to left... Or am I the only one that noticed this?

Uncle Gump noticed

 

[adsm08]

I own Ford Special Service Tool "locally fabricated sleeve". It is used in combination with Rotunda service tool W-00-d to install the speed gears onto the output shafts of the M5OD.

 

[Snoranger]

I think he means from right to left... Or am I the only one that noticed this?

My left... not your left.
Yeah, I meant right to left.

 

[Curious Hound]

I own Ford Special Service Tool "locally fabricated sleeve". It is used in combination with Rotunda service tool W-00-d to install the speed gears onto the output shafts of the M5OD.

Forgot that I have those in several sizes.

 

[Shran]

I have a small piece of a snowplow mount that I flattened on one end and carved out a notch at the exact depth of RBV brake master cylinder pushrods... have gotten one or two over the years that someone messed with.

Several pieces of pipe welded inside each other with a socket inside that for removing the old style Briggs & Stratton ball bearing starter assembly

1-1/8 socket cut in half and lengthened about 3" so it fits over the upper radius arm bolt on D35 and D28 axles

Those are a few of my homemade ones... also have a few dumb ones I bought, such as the HF pneumatic dent puller, and a flexible cable type hose clamp removal tool. I guess I don't have many that are really dumb, I use just about everything I have but those two in particular were really useless.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Just remembered I have a EEC code reader. Like the kind you can pull codes using a light, this one you plug in and i think it beeps.

Looks like brand new, Motorcraft. Free.99 at u pull it in a glovebox.

I own nothing it can talk to but I couldn’t just let it get crushed...

 

[8thTon]

These - I have several. I've never used one for anything, and can barely imagine anything it would be useful for:

 

[Curious Hound]

These - I have several. I've never used one for anything, and can barely imagine anything it would be useful for:

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They are Awkward. But I have successfully used those.