Recent content by scrubcakes

I'm 20 and have never had anyone else work on my cars, other than state safety inspections and alignments. I usually group in routine maintenance by job so I do it all at once. My 86 Subaru XT hasn't needed any work besides oil changes in a year. For that car I use 10w30 advance auto parts brand...

My toolbox is just a Harbor Freight three shelf cart, but I do have this bad boy for A/C work:

ATF/Acetone mixture from an oil squirt can to loosen bolts is horrible. The absolute worst is used gear oil or ATF spilled on the catalytic converter. The chinese rubber/plastic smell, I wonder why every Circuit City & Harbor Freight tools have the same distinctive imported odor. I wonder...

The "old Mercedes smell" a combination of outgassing vinyl, horsehair & leather. Smells like freshly baked pretzels! Automatic Transmission fluid smells great, from the bottle. Diesel fuel, heavy machinery grease, the old window grease smell when you open a door panel (also smells like the...

HF's black 11 drawer roller cabinet is on the harborfreightusa.com website for $200, if you bring that printout to the store to have the price matched, then use the 20% coupon it would be $160+tax. Does anybody have this one, is it a pretty good buy? I've been looking for a toolbox for a while...

I'm a sophomore EE college student, you definitely want to be prepared for breakdowns, but I don't recommend working on your car there unless the issue prevents your car from driving. Most of what I keep in the trunk: 3/8'' ratchet and Metric socket set, 3/8'' metric hex key sockets...

Looks like you got rid of the "Awesome" cleaner from the dollar store! That's good stuff! :shocking:

The first toolset I got to use was my great-grandfathers woodworking and general household tools. Nice cast flathead screwdriver with a wooden handle, wooden level, ancient hammers and saws, in a big metal toolbox. To learn to work on my first car, a 1980 MBZ 300cd, I bought a plastic case...

My Harbor Freight 1/2 metric impact set has been great for 3 years, you can beat on them and they don't break, very good tolerances too, only 10 dollars for the set, which I believe is 10-23mm.

At my Homedespot it's 50/50 USA and china Irwin vicegrips. I like the 5mm hex in the tightening screw, made it easy to remove a rusted in oxygen sensor.

I have a 1970's wood paneled GE turntable AM/FM stereo and 70's sears speakers with an ipod hookup in my garage. I listen to the LP Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Rush (the canadian rock band not the raging hillbilly heroin guy) Yes, Genesis, Styx, Journey, Boston, Commodores, anything Motown...

I almost exclusively buy my tools from Harbor Freight and none of them have broken on me in 3 years of wrenching duty on 80's midwest cars (read: iron oxide). So yes, they are the best for me, and I can afford them too. I need the rest of the money for parts & oil :pimpflash

PASS/NICE STUFF HF Impact sockets, Made in India pittsburgh pro wrenches, Zipties, 3 drawer service cart, Brass mityvac, Torque wrenches, Breaker bars, 6 ton jack stands, 4.5 inch orange angle grinder, Metric hex sockets, Nitrile & Mechanics gloves, Tool box liner, 3'' cutoff wheel, 50'' rubber...