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I was at Harbor Freight on Friday to buy and return some items, including their Bauer short throw DA polisher for polishing a car I've partially repainted after doing some body work on it, and saw 2 Bauer palm sanders on sale for basically nothing: BAUER 2.8 Amp, 5 in. Random Orbit Palm Sander...

I've had the Gen 1 M12 3/8" Stubby impact for 3-4 years now, use it all the time. But lately it feels like it's lost a bit of power, and I'm wondering if it's my imagination or if others have experienced this. I use it with the 5Ah high capacity battery, fully charged, at level 3, and also the...

Years ago, before LiOn-based jump starters came out, I bought an SLA-based jump starter just prior to undertaking a cross-country drive, as a precaution. It was a Peak unit from Pep Boys with a built-in inflater and light, no inverter but with a 12V cigarette port. It worked fine for several...

I don't use air tools so I don't have a compressor. But sometimes it would be nice to have pressurized air to blow away leaves and debris from an engine bay or suspension, or when working on parts that require pressurized air such as the pistons on an automatic transmission. So I was wondering...

I'm about to try to rebuild an automatic transmission, but to remove it from this car (A140E trans, 3rd gen Camry), I have to support the engine from above. There's no safe way to do it from below from what I can tell, as the subframe has to be removed to remove the trans (its overdrive unit...

For a low-speed, low-heat, low-impact, small bearing using loose ball bearings in a race use case, where friction reduction is more important than say protection against water, dirt and heat, what kind of grease is recommended, and how full should the race be if you're not sure about the correct...

I've heard and been told that the only proper use of a torque wrench is for the final tightening, to make sure that it reaches but doesn't exceed the set torque value, and that you should never use it for any other purpose. But this makes no sense to me because ratcheting torque wrenches, well...

I need to get a 14mm Allen wrench bit to work on my road bike of all things. I want to remove one of the cranks to clean the chainrings and the removal tool I have has both wrench flats and a 14mm female hex "bore" (not sure what the proper term is) to turn the forcing bolt. In the past I've...

I'd like to buy a 2 Ton aluminum racing jack at Harbor Freight and am trying to decide between either the Pittsburgh or Daytona. I live in a walkup apartment with no garage or outside storage space that I can use, and work on our cars on the street, so I'd have to either store the jack in one...

I have a decent selection of 1/4", 3/8" & 1/2" socket sets in shallow & deep, impact & non-impact, 6 & 12 pt, just not in every single combination. I also have both a 1/2" & 3/8" impact wrench, with both shallow and deep impact socket sets for each. I don't have a 1/4" impact wrench, per se...

So I took apart my Craftsman 2.5 ton floor jack because of a leak, and found the culprit, a wide seal or o-ring that sits at the bottom of the pump assembly on the opposite end as the gland nut. It's leaking pretty badly and appears pretty beat up, possibly from having been overtightened at the...

My several year old so-so basic Craftsman floor jack (the kind that's basically a generic sold under many brands) has been leaking so I'm trying to fix it and have taken most of it apart except for the large "cap" where the piston that raises the car exits. It has a 47mm hex nut for which I have...

Although technically not a "tool" but a consumable, people use brake clean on auto parts and other things, to clean them, so I'd put it in the "tool-adjacent" category. I was just wondering if it's sufficient to just spray it on liberally (taking the proper precautions to protect yourself and...

Sorry if this sounds stupid. Now and then I come across a rusted on and seized part I need to get off the car, like a snap ring or CV axle end stuck in the hub splines, and I could use an impact hammer (the kind you attach a chisel bit to) to loosen seized bonds a bit, but can't justify buying...

Sorry for the throwaway post but I just heard on a YouTube tool review video that apparently Snap-On sells an 8 piece socket set for something like $48,000. Is this an urban legend or is it true, and if so why are they so expensive? Is this a specialty set for NASA or the military or aviation...

Not intended to start a "serious" discussion, just curious. But even for those who own at least one of each, have you ever found yourself using an impact driver as an impact wrench, using a 1/4" hex to square anvil adapter, or an impact wrench as an impact driver, using a square anvil to 1/4"...

The cat was stolen from one of my cars recently and I finally got around to replacing it. I bought a universal aftermarket cat, by Walker, but because the input & output are a lot wider than the 2 tailpipe sections, I've had to use various pipe reducers and clamps to get everything connected...

Through trial and error I'm finally realizing that when derusting rusty metal prior to priming and painting it, unless you're absolutely sure that you got 100% of the rust out, including pitted rust and rust in hidden nooks & crannies and in welds & seams, you need to treat the metal with some...

I needed to remove the rust and crud from some old nuts & bolts from a car I've been restoring. Usually I just wire wheel them, and that's what I did, but some rust remained that I couldn't remove this way. I dropped everything in Evaporust overnight, and that helped, but there was still some...

Hey, me again with my rust and car restoration questions. Hopefully the last of them. I've already derusted and painted most of the underbody parts with POR-15 (yeah, I know, should have gone with epoxy, and certainly will if the POR-15 didn't take). I.e. subframe, diff (used spray can paint for...