Let's see your FORD tools & other OEM kit tools

[Lump]

Years ago I had an extensive collection of old FORD script tools from Model T's, Model A's, and early V8 cars, plus some rare tools such as Pierce Arrow, etc. But I tired of them and sold them all. But now that I am addicted to Garage Journal (you guys should be ashamed of yourselves...look what you've done to me!!) , I have started picking them up again, here and there whenever I run into them (always at a bargain price, of course!)
So here are some pictures of my old "kit tools", as delivered with new cars, "back in the day....."

This shot was difficult to take. Poor lighting, and long shot of my workbench.

Here is a shot of most all of my old FORD factory tool-kit tools.

This is a close-up of a pair of nearly identical Model T hubcap tools, made to the same specs by different manufacturers.

Close-up of one of two different adjustable FORD script wrenches in this group.

Here are a pair of uncommon "Z" FORD tools. The bottom one was rusty, so I treated it with Evaporust. It came out pretty good. Many Ford enthusiasts believe that the "Z" part-numbered tools were made for assembly line workers, who built those Fords on the line for ol' Henry hisself!

Ford script pliers are rare...MUCH more uncommon than Ford script wrenches, for example.

This may be my most uncommon Ford script tool...an old screw jack with Ford script cast into the handle!

Here is an assortment of IHC tools, along with an adjustable wrench marked, "McCormick". I hope you guys will tolerate tractor-oriented tools!

I think this is my rarest old car "kit" tool. It is a script "Hupmobile" screw jack. Cool, eh?

Here is a close-up shot of the handle.

Finally, here is a shot of some "furrin" OEM "kit-tools" which made it into my collection somehow. The top wrench is marked "Toyota", and the next two are marked "Renault". Finally, there are two more wrenches, marked as, "Mercedes".
Now that you have seen my old OEM "kit" tools, I KNOW there are lots of Garage Journal guys who have MUCH better collections. So, c'mon guys and gals...let's SEE 'em!!

 

[Lump]

HA! Nice, Tony. Well done!

 

[tonydanzah]

That screwjack looks awesome. How well does it work? Fast/Slow easy or hard to turn?

 

[TireTracks]

we have a model T magnito/distributer cap, and a multi wrench thing for a T.

 

[jwitt]

Here are some Austin car wrenches

and an Indian Motorcycle wrench

Jim

 

[Lump]

Nice tools, so far. Thanks for sharing. I really like those Austin and Indian wrenches. I used to own some Indian wrenches myself, years ago.

OOOPS! I just realized that I left out the photo of my best group of car-kit wrenches. I'll have to add that tonight when I get home.

 

[Bolster]

Cool beans. I actually have one of those old Ford adjustable wrenches in my "away" tool box, because they do a good job of opening far enough to get many of those oversize nuts you find in plumbing...

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

Gotta learn to post pics...I collect Ford toolkits for my cars, Z seies tools, and KR Wilson Ford service tools. House looks like the aftermath of an earthquake at a Ford dealer with a junkyard out back in 1948...
Z tools (3Z and 5Z seiries at least existed) were mostly specialized wrenches and pullers for specific Ford uses...connecting rod wrenches, hub pullers, that sort of stuff. They were listed in the backs of T-A and B parts catalogs for sale at the parts counter. Probably many of the wrenches were used on the line, too, things like non-removeable socket wrenches with handles designed for hard to reach parts. I think the tool partially shown above is the little 11/16 ratchet for band adjustment on Model T's, a convenience alternative to the little open end wrench supplied with the cars.
If anyone on here has any KRW/KR Wison stamped stuff that needs a home...I have some spaces in my garage where they will get real excercise!

For many years when I was a kid, our '48 Ford's very complete original toolkit was about 90% of my total tool collection for working on the family cars!

 

[Stuart in MN]

BMW used to include some nice tool kits in their cars that were built into the trunk lid. The picture below is from a 1988 M5 - the tools were all Heyco, and up in the corner that little foam thing holds spare light bulbs and fuses. They even included a nice little cleaning cloth with a BMW logo on it. However, the quality and quantity of tools has dropped way off since then, I think nowadays they only have like one single screwdriver and one wrench.

 

[Lump]

Gotta learn to post pics...I collect Ford toolkits for my cars, Z seies tools, and KR Wilson Ford service tools. House looks like the aftermath of an earthquake at a Ford dealer with a junkyard out back in 1948...
Z tools (3Z and 5Z seiries at least existed) were mostly specialized wrenches and pullers for specific Ford uses...connecting rod wrenches, hub pullers, that sort of stuff. They were listed in the backs of T-A and B parts catalogs for sale at the parts counter. Probably many of the wrenches were used on the line, too, things like non-removeable socket wrenches with handles designed for hard to reach parts. I think the tool partially shown above is the little 11/16 ratchet for band adjustment on Model T's, a convenience alternative to the little open end wrench supplied with the cars.
If anyone on here has any KRW/KR Wison stamped stuff that needs a home...I have some spaces in my garage where they will get real excercise!

For many years when I was a kid, our '48 Ford's very complete original toolkit was about 90% of my total tool collection for working on the family cars!

Bruce,
If I'm not mistaken, I have some KR Wilson tool catalogs upstairs at the shop at work. I'll try to dig 'em out. Back when I had my previous collection of Ford tools, I had quite a few KR Wilsons, but even more of those Stevens-Walden-Worcester tools especially for Model T's.

 

[tonydanzah]

That screwjack looks awesome. How well does it work? Fast/Slow easy or hard to turn?

so how is that screwjack?

 

[Indy_500]

Here's a pic of one of mine. I had another one but i can't find it at the moment.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

The open end with the big openings you show is the Model T standard toolkit wrench for adjusting the bands...it is lightly made to fit in there where the adjusters live, and is usually found damaged because someone used it to turn a bolt. The ratchet 5Z up above is for same job, for the customer willing to pay an extra 50 cents for ratchet convenience!

 

[Lump]

That screwjack looks awesome. How well does it work? Fast/Slow easy or hard to turn?

so how is that screwjack?

Tony,
I must admit that I have not actually used either one of the screwjacks featured in the photo...at least not in real-life car-lifting situations. But I have another one exactly like them, which I keep in the tool compartment under the seat of the Hupp. (that one is not marked with car company logo). I have used it several times for flat tires and things, and it worked smoothly, but not too quickly compared with modern jacks (maybe as fast as a typical scissors jack, I suppose). However, you pretty much have to lie flat on the ground to reach it back under the axle, as the frame rails and bumper/braces are too high for most similar jacks. Thus, you must also lay flat on the ground to operate the handle in many cases.

Come to think of it, I haven't actually had to use that screw jack either...in about 15 years (knock on wood!)

Once while I was driving my Hupp and my brother was following me in my old Model A sedan, the left rear wheel came off and passed us both down the highway. Not much damage, just a hole worn through the brake drum. But the screw jack was now too tall to fit under the axle tube, with the drum resting on the ground. So that is one downside to these old-style screw jacks...they are designed for cars with fairly high ground clearance. And I would also say that you must be very careful when using them, to be sure that pawl which flips from the "up" position to the "down" position is seated properly...throughout the entire jacking process.

This old screw jack must be used for emergencies on the side of the road, by someone who can think carefully about what they're doing. When I'm in my shop, I'll just use the Blackhawk floor jack and jack stands, thanks.

 

[Walterchang]

I was going through some of my tools last night and came a cross a couple ford wrenches. I will post a pic later.

 

[Lump]

Okay,
I finally got pix of my last bunch of new-car-factory supplied tools. I shot them last night, but forgot to add a couple of important tools. So I re-shot them tonight, with everything in place. I MAY have others, but I'm too old and disorganized to remember where!

This is the entire group of wrenches which I had neglected to include last night. Moving up from the bottom: first is an Apperson, then two identical Maxwells, then an Overland, next a Cadillac, then four Nash wrenches, and two Ramblers.

How many GJ members have heard of the very old car called the "Apperson Jackrabbit"? It was well known by name and reputation in the antique car club when I was a young kid...way before ANYONE would consider any car made after WWII as being "old". This is a pretty uncommon tool today, in my experience.

Moving up now, further from the bottom of the main photo, next comes my second of the identical "MAXWELL" wrenches. They are made from flat stamped steel.
Then the Overland, Cadillac, Nash, and Rambler wrenches.

Here is a pretty good close-up of the Overland wrench (bottom), and the Cadillac. Note the early Caddy logo, with the artistically-shaped "C".

Next, from the bottom up, are four Nash wrenches, and two Rambler wrenches. Now don't confuse these early cars with AMC vehicles of the 60's-70's. The Rambler was a big, powerful and expensive car in the early brass car era. The company disappeared, like SO MANY US car companies in the early days (keep in mind that there were over 3,000 independent US car companies in the teens, twenties, and early thirties). Nash prospered with it's own high quality line of cars well into the late thirties. In the 1920's, the Nash was clearly an equal for the "upper middle class" of automobiles, being very much on a par with Chrysler, Studebaker, Hupmobile, Buick, Oldsmobile, Graham, etc. By contrast, other cars like the Ford, Chevy, Essex, Grant, Maxwell, Overland, Durant, Star, etc, were much lower-priced "lighter-duty" cars. I bought the black wrenches with white letters from the son of a man who produced a beautiful book all about vintage automotive collectibles. The black wrenches shown here were actually featured in that book. I found the other two on my own.

A tire gauge is considered to be a "tool"...isn't it? (I hope so. Don't want to make anyone unhappy.)
I have seen many "FORD" script tire gauges like this, and some of the other short, stubby style tire gauge in both Ford and Pierce Arrow script. But this Hupmobile tire gauge is kind of uncommon, I think.
The other car items shown here are just decoration to fill in empty spots in the photo. The Durant "decoration" item is a paper whistle which was given out by Durant dealers to children of prospective customers. The 3 keys are blank NOS Hupmobile factory keys, and the little coin is a "good luck charm", used as an advertising give-away.

OKAY, guys. Please dig out those car-maker tool-kit-tools, and post some photos for us all to enjoy!

 

[Monte]

 

[Lump]

Nice, Monte. Do you have any idea when those Mercedes wrenches were made? I have a couple like that, but I don't know if they're from the 1980's, or the 1930's...or what.

 

[Monte]

Nice, Monte. Do you have any idea when those Mercedes wrenches were made? I have a couple like that, but I don't know if they're from the 1980's, or the 1930's...or what.

i dunno ... got them from the flea market ...i guess 80´s or 90´s ???

 

[jwitt]

A couple that I forgot the other day

K R Wilson tool for checking point spring tension on Flathead Fords. I don't have it any more, went to new home on Ebay.

A Mack truck wrench by Williams

Jim

 

[Lump]

Jwitt, I LOVE that Mack wrench! Wanna sell or trade it? I have been buying LOTS of USA-made tools over recent months. Anything you might need?

 

[jwitt]

Jwitt, I LOVE that Mack wrench! Wanna sell or trade it? I have been buying LOTS of USA-made tools over recent months. Anything you might need?

Always looking for Plomb stuff. Shot me a PM if you have somthing interesting.

Jim

 

[Mickey O]

Here's a few, I have a bunch more, just don't know where they are.

 

[Lump]

Nice, Mickey. The others will turn up...mine always do, eventually.

 

[Lump]

I just found out that many "Hazet" brand German tools are factory "tool-kit-tools" for VW, Porsche, and other European cars. I have seen several of them in my "junk" box, so now I'll need to dig them out and add them to my OEM tool collection.

Shows you how little I know about foreign cars. Sigh, I wish I wasn't so ignorant about so many things!

 

[69f100]

Here's a pic of one of mine. I had another one but i can't find it at the moment.

model t clutch adjusting wrench! found one the other day
http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68255&highlight=ford+wrench

 

[69f100]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=427066&highlight=snap+on+1926
a little birdie tells me this one is rare. so it just sits in my bedroom.

 

[ganymede]

6 inch slip joint pliers..

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

Strange Ford pliers factoid: USA made ones, raised Ford script on all I have seen...British made ones, indented script on all I have seen. Don't know about other Ford England tools, as I have only little catalog pictures.

 

[ganymede]

Does the 'D 2' code mean the pliers are for English D model trucks ?

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

As a flying guess, "D" probably identifies a supplier and the 2 is the suppliers mark to show what dies were used. Ford kit tools carried Ford part numbers (though these were not stamped on the tools themselves in many cases) and Ford part number prefixes identify age and model of first usage.

 

[ganymede]

Ah, okay. I thought they looked a bit older but wasn't sure.
Thank you sir.

 

[dynamike]

since this thread got back...couldn't resist

My Ford Tool

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J.K.

 

[Beenman]

Found these at Pawnshops over the last while. Don't know why I bought them - I don't use them. But there is something cool about an Automotive branded tool.

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This one I do use though, I think it was intended for the Merc mechanics' tool box.

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