Crow's feet. When do they come in handy?

[wreckercologist]

I've got 3/8" through 7/8" flare nuts, 9mm through 19mm flare nuts, 7/16" though 1 1/4" open end, 5/8" through 1 1/16" deep 12 point flare nuts, and I can honestly say the most handy crowsfeet are the ones you don't own yet.....

 

[tool_enthusiast]

My serpentine belt tool kit comes with a few crowsfeet wrenches. Obviously there must be many cars out there where a crowsfeet is only thing that can get to the tensioner bolt.

 

[ultgar]

There are torque wrenches (Facom, Toptul, etc) with detachable ratchet heads that use flare and open end attachments. I sell a lot of these for industrial applications and they'd come in handy on the car as well. Here's a cut-sheet for Facom's 306 series (+/-2% accuracy and still made in Europe)...

 

[NUTTSGT]

We bought a crow foot to change the o-ring on a SCBA bottle. A regular wrench was too thick and couldn't be used to torque it back on. The crowfoot had to be ground down to fit but it was still cheaper to buy the crowfoot then to send it off and get it fixed.