Found neat new tool for garage

[fangjkf]

Skil 7.2-Volt 1/4" Drive Cordless Impact Wrench - $20 CLICKY

I bought this tool at local Lowes hardware store. For a cordless 1/4" driving tool to fasteners, I am just tickled. I like the size, weight, and just enought power for the tool. For jobs that I don't need to powerup the air compressor and air tools, I really like this. The lithium-ion gives it power and longer shelf life. I've been using it to doing some maint on my newly received 06 FJR, and I can't wait to find stuff I need to remove

I also bought a 1/4" -> 3/8" adapter to be able to add 3/8" sockets / torx / allen heads I already have.

(I know, I know - for all you MAC & Snap-On lovers, Skil may not be at the very top of the tool food chain. But it's a neat tool, at a bargain price)

See what you think - anyone have any other favorite, non-standard tools that make your garage life easier?

 

[jmdaniel]

See what you think - anyone have any other favorite, non-standard tools that make your garage life easier?

:yahoo:

 

[Silent]

My kinda garage accessorie B)

 

[Bustanut joker]

See what you think - anyone have any other favorite, non-standard tools that make your garage life easier?

:yahoo:

Sweet! Who needs tools when ya have beer? :clapping:

:jester:

 

[Pierre]

Too bad there is no Lowes Store in Cananda

 

[yanktar]

See what you think - anyone have any other favorite, non-standard tools that make your garage life easier?

:yahoo:

Mine has Brooklyn Lager, Sam and Murphys and Guinness, but no ButtWiper. Still, you are on the right track. I was sure someone would include a stacked honey as their PRIMARY garage tool (in their dreams)....

 

[Crash Cash]

See what you think - anyone have any other favorite, non-standard tools that make your garage life easier?

Well, there's the "caliper resetting tool" that I got from komotodraggin.com as a result of a thread here. After you clean the brake pistons, you use it to spread the pistons to fit in new pads, kind of the opposite of a vice. This is good because 6mos ago I was putting in rear pads on the SV-650 and pushed in one piston, and it went "whoop" and the other ******* one popped right the **** out, splashing fluid everywhere and necessitating a lot of dicking around bleeding everything, and turning a less than 30 minute easy job into over 3 hours of swearing. I DO NOT want to have to bleed air out of my ABS system... regular systems are enough of a pain as it is.

Still on the brake thread, there's the Mityvac MVA6832 clamp-on auto-refill reservoir. This is a 40oz airtight tank that fits upside down on the master cylinder with an adjustable setup so that when the fluid level drops, it dribbles more fluid in. It's got a shutoff valve too. When you're a one-man operation, it keeps you out of the church tower with the sniper rifle by the end of the day.

Nobody knows it, but Mityvac also has a big 16oz drain bottle to replace the tiny useless crap that comes with the vacuum kit. Not strictly a must-have, but worth the shipping and handling.

There's the Craftsman wobble sockets that I bought for the cam tensioner, but they've been useful as hell in other tight places. They're much more "controlled" than the standard u-joint.

An impact driver... you know, the heavy-duty thing where you put the screwdriver bit in, and hammer on it, and it's got a spiral arrangement that manages to take out those cheesy 1980s-era fasteners that were made of playdoh without stripping them. I bought it for $20 over 18 years ago, and it's saved many hundreds of bolts, especially on my RZ-350 and Honda CB-whatevers. This tool is such a godsend that Kevin Cameron even wrote a column on it in Cycle magazine.

Motion-Pro 1/4" & 3/8" T-handles... you'd think you could get by with a ratchet and extension, but they're a lot more convenient when you're whizzing stuff off and on.

The Motion-Pro clutch basket tool that grips the gear so that you can loosen the center nut. For a while I was doing a lot of transmission work, because I appear to be the only person that can shim them so they shift better, and replace bent forks and stuff.

A cheesy thread/bolt gauge thing that I picked up at Harbor Freight, so I can say "I need an M6x1.00 bolt, but 55mm instead of 40mm long" and buy it from boltdepot.com, because NOBODY in Orlando stocks metric fasteners, unless I want to drive all the way over to the space center. The HF design is better than any other I've seen, I just wish it wasn't made of tinfoil.

I don't know what you call them, but they're the little thumbwheel thing that you can stick screwdriver bits into, so that you can unscrew things deep inside a bike where you can't get even a stubby screwdriver. It's great for adjusting carb pilots.

Those are the tools where I would break someone's knees if I caught them trying to snarf one.

 

[Capt. Bob]

Nothing like a good chain breaker.

Hasn't got much use lately but still a great tool.

+1 on the clutch basket tool also.

 

[gearman]

I picked these up at a flea market a few years back and use the heck out of 'em.