I have finally found tools I will never use again

[slow]

5.5 mm socket is needed on 1999ish Sunfire ignition coils.

Ryan

 

[D350RDV]

on my drive i have an 80s land rover in bits - and regularly find bolts that neither Metric nor imperial fit - and i know where to get the spanner that does fit.... theres no rhyme nor reason to it either - its just what land rover had on the floor in solihull at the time.

It must be an early 80s Land Rover as there should be no Whitworth fasteners used on the 90/110 vehicles. There is reason and logic - the Whitworth threads are all on transmission and axle components and it's because they were still using basically the same design and tooling that was in use with the introduction of the Series One in 1948 (which actually dated from pre WW2!).

What is confusing is that while the five main bearing engines (1979-1989) are ostensibly all metric fasteners - some of them are actually UNF threaded bolts with metric heads - again down to the tooling used.

I did recently sell a tool I knew I'd never use - a brake caliper wind back tool for a Rover P6. About a week after I'd managed to buy another I found the one I thought I'd lost forever - in a draw in the workshop I swear I looked in a hundred times!

Anthony

 

[CV90]

The 5.5mm is not an obscure size at all. It's the standard DIN head size for a M3 bolt. The 6.5mm, now that is a strange size. Most brands don't even make it.

The one tool I'm absolutely sure I will never use again is a 10 point socket for control arms on a RSX.

 

[Dirty Diesels]

"I've said this about the British Standard Whitworth sockets & wrenches, I've got, but I ain't getting rid of them because one day will come around when they are needed, so don't go getting rid of those sockets just yet, you never know when you will use them again, but you have them for when you do need them."

I inherrited a set of whitworths - good whitworths - original britool and geodore

at the time i remember thinking - wtf am i going to do with those.

NOW

on my drive i have an 80s land rover in bits - and regularly find bolts that neither Metric nor imperial fit - and i know where to get the spanner that does fit.... theres no rhyme nor reason to it either - its just what land rover had on the floor in solihull at the time.

Have you had it from new ?

 

[Peoria Man]

5.5 mm socket is needed on 1999ish Sunfire ignition coils.

Tons of GM applications for the ol' 5.5.

 

[T-Mac]

This-hooked it to a plug wire and rotated the knob and watched the led to measure kv-no plug wires anymore-just one of those"SHINY"things I bought when I was young and foolish!

 

[Lassen Forge]

Still have the 4-pin spline socket, welded to a 4" extension, used to remove the oil slinger "filter" on a late 60's-early 70's Honda CB/CL/SL DOHC-450 (and early 500) twin. Need that specific combo to pull the motor apart... haven't owned one in 20+ years (haven't seen one for sale in 10!!) but without it your blown motor becomes a literal boat anchor. I keep looking at it... and putting it back, because they're unobtanium, and sure as toots, the day I do someone will give me a '68 CB450...

 

[ttpete]

Still have the 4-pin spline socket, welded to a 4" extension, used to remove the oil slinger "filter" on a late 60's-early 70's Honda CB/CL/SL DOHC-450 (and early 500) twin. Need that specific combo to pull the motor apart... haven't owned one in 20+ years (haven't seen one for sale in 10!!) but without it your blown motor becomes a literal boat anchor. I keep looking at it... and putting it back, because they're unobtanium, and sure as toots, the day I do someone will give me a '68 CB450...

I still have the alternator rotor puller for the CB/CL 72/77 that I bought back in 1965.

 

[Dirty Diesels]

Still have the 4-pin spline socket, welded to a 4" extension, used to remove the oil slinger "filter" on a late 60's-early 70's Honda CB/CL/SL DOHC-450 (and early 500) twin. Need that specific combo to pull the motor apart... haven't owned one in 20+ years (haven't seen one for sale in 10!!) but without it your blown motor becomes a literal boat anchor. I keep looking at it... and putting it back, because they're unobtanium, and sure as toots, the day I do someone will give me a '68 CB450...

Always the case with rarely used tools & equipment, the moment you get rid of, you'll need it again.

 

[Cope]

I have a Snap On tach-dwell meter and volt-amp meter mounted on a Snap On analyzer roll around stand. I can't remember when I used them, but probably around 1988-89 when my daughter still had her 67 Mustang. They roll around out of the way, and I hate to part with them for fear they won't bring anything on the used market.

 

[lakota]

Drum brake tools, I'll keep all my unneeded tools, but I hate drum brakes and wouldn't knowingly buy a vehicle with them. Fortunately they are getting rare.

 

[articsilber323]

Drum brake tools, I'll keep all my unneeded tools, but I hate drum brakes and wouldn't knowingly buy a vehicle with them. Fortunately they are getting rare.

dont count on that to much as a lot of e-brakes are shoes using the inside of the rotor for the drum portion

 

[ttpete]

Drum brake tools, I'll keep all my unneeded tools, but I hate drum brakes and wouldn't knowingly buy a vehicle with them. Fortunately they are getting rare.

I still have mine. Most people today have never experienced properly set up drum brakes with top quality lining material. They're quite powerful and easily capable of locking up the wheels. The main disadvantage is that they will fade when used repeatedly and heavily, something that the average driver seldom does.

 

[DocsMachine]

-I once had to go buy a 1" square socket, to pull the nuts off a century-old drill press. (Couldn't reach in with a wrench.) Still have the socket, will likely never, ever use it again.

ive still got the olds toronado cv boot installer somewhere.

-Which one? The one that tightens the band? I had to buy one of those about two years ago... and shortly afterward, I found another one in my box of "I don't know what the hell it's for" tools.

Doc.

 

[Danno1]

I still have mine. Most people today have never experienced properly set up drum brakes with top quality lining material. They're quite powerful and easily capable of locking up the wheels. The main disadvantage is that they will fade when used repeatedly and heavily, something that the average driver seldom does.

Perhaps you've never had a ride with my "better half" !!!



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[Jim C.]

-I once had to go buy a 1" square socket, to pull the nuts off a century-old drill press. (Couldn't reach in with a wrench.) Still have the socket, will likely never, ever use it again.

Doc.

If necessary, I'd buy a whole set of specific tools just to work on that drill press. A 100 year old drill press? That's cool. I bought a few wrenches and sockets sized on 32nd increments (17/32", 19/32", 21/32", 25/32") for the same reason..... to work on old machinery still equipped with original fasteners.

Jim C.

 

[lakota]

Drum Brakes:
Yes, I'm aware that drum brakes are in the rear hat of disc brakes on many/most vehicles and used as parking brakes, to include my 10 year old SUV and wife's 13 year old sedan. I use my parking brakes in the hope they won't rust and I'll have to service them, which I think would be rare.

Drum brakes fade badly if you drive thru water. Many people who never drove with them would be surprised that they have almost no braking after driving thru water. In the old days had to have one foot on brake and other on the accelerator driving thru water to maintain braking.