Mountain Wrenches?

[Lucid Moments]

A buddy was helping me pull the transmission on my car today and he had some wrenches that really came in handy. Very long format double box end ratcheting.

I think these are the same ones. Anyone know anything about them? Just for my curiosity really. I am pretty sure I am going to be buying a set.

 

[jeepinerdeep]

I bought them about a year ago. So far so good. I think mountain will do ya as long as you are a hobbyist and don't go ape on it.

 

[driz]

What’s the design of that tooth system called. [emoji848]. I’ve seen them somewhere but never used one. They look like they’d be a bit hard on the fasteners to me.


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[dimichele]

Spline.

Tekton makes similar wrenches in 6 point. Most are spline drive. I'm sure someone knows who makes them in 12 point though.

 

[setfocus]

I have a set of those but mine say platinum. Bought them off the Mac truck, I love them

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[Lucid Moments]

I have a set of those but mine say platinum. Bought them off the Mac truck, I love them

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My friend that has them bought his off the Snap-On truck.

 

[Yarpo]

Mountain, platinum, carlyle. Great set, everyone of us has a set at work, super handy.

 

[Professional Tool User]

Those wrenches are Made in Taiwan and available under various brand names.

 

[sk farmer]

Mountain, platinum, carlyle. Great set, everyone of us has a set at work, super handy.

also the sk g-pro line from pre ideal.

 

[retDAC]

Mountain, platinum, carlyle. Great set, everyone of us has a set at work, super handy.

Used to be sold under the E Z Red brand also.

 

[Steve_P]

I have the Mountain, EZ red, and tekton. All seem the same - great.

 

[ALinCarolina]

Mine are Mountain. Very handy when you need extra leverage.

 

[Lucid Moments]

I went ahead and bought them.

 

[Fedwrench]

I have the Mountain, EZ red, and tekton. All seem the same - great.

Yeah, no. you have to look at the boxed end. Tekton's is flush with the boxed end whereas, the EZ Red and others have a socket like protrusion on the boxed end. Often the socket type offer better access but, with a spline type end.

 

[setfocus]

Yeah, no. you have to look at the boxed end. Tekton's is flush with the boxed end whereas, the EZ Red and others have a socket like protrusion on the boxed end. Often the socket type offer better access but, with a spline type end.

that's what's great about them, can get on recessed nuts and bolts. I used mine on wednesday, replacing upper control arms on an older grand cherokee

 

[oilslick]

Carlysle, napa warranty.

 

[Ton ton]

Thanks, oilslick for answering my question before I asked.

 

[Fedwrench]

Carlysle, napa warranty.

Excellent point!!

By the very nature of these wrenches, you may want to opt to pay more up front to get a set with a working warranty like NAPA'S Carlyle, Northern's Klutch, etc. When you lean on them, they might fail.

 

[bwringer]

I don't have any of these but I want some.

They have them at the new Northern Tool about a mile away. Very tempting.

I wish someone sold a set of these with just the JIS sizes; almost everything I work on is Japanese.

8/10mm, 12/14mm, and 17/19mm would cover about 99.9% of my needs. Individually they're ****** expensive, and the sets contain sizes I never use.

 

[Yarpo]

Excellent point!!

By the very nature of these wrenches, you may want to opt to pay more up front to get a set with a working warranty like NAPA'S Carlyle, Northern's Klutch, etc. When you lean on them, they might fail.

The warranty meant **** all to my napa(s) just a heads up. Make sure your need a parts ******* store is actually worth a ****.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

The warranty meant **** all to my napa(s) just a heads up. Make sure your need a parts ******* store is actually worth a ****.

I can tell you mountain won't warranty **** either. "Oh, go through the distributor.... guess what the distributor tells you?

Steelman makes a similar wrench, same warranty lies. "Lifetime warranty", which includes me shipping it across the country for repair/inspection. It cost about $5 more to just buy a single wrench to replace it. Oh, and no wrench for 2 weeks while it ships to vegas or where ever they're based.




Little pot-metal switch regularly breaks off the steelman, I had issues with my 13/15 sticking out of the box with mountain, had to **** it up and buy a replacement as warranty was impossible. Accept they break, and treat them as such. Singles can cost $30. If any tool companies are listening; make this product and put these guys out of business.

 

[Steve_P]

Yeah, no. you have to look at the boxed end. Tekton's is flush with the boxed end whereas, the EZ Red and others have a socket like protrusion on the boxed end. Often the socket type offer better access but, with a spline type end.

I'm not blind; sorry, but I meant quality-wise. I realize some are reversible, some have spline , some offset ring, some 6 point.... pick the style you want and buy them

 

[Lucid Moments]

I can tell you mountain won't warranty **** either. "Oh, go through the distributor.... guess what the distributor tells you?

Steelman makes a similar wrench, same warranty lies. "Lifetime warranty", which includes me shipping it across the country for repair/inspection. It cost about $5 more to just buy a single wrench to replace it. Oh, and no wrench for 2 weeks while it ships to vegas or where ever they're based.




Little pot-metal switch regularly breaks off the steelman, I had issues with my 13/15 sticking out of the box with mountain, had to **** it up and buy a replacement as warranty was impossible. Accept they break, and treat them as such. Singles can cost $30. If any tool companies are listening; make this product and put these guys out of business.

I am going to offer a different analysis to this. My friend that has the Mountain wrenches is a professional tech. Has his own shop working mostly on race cars. Spec E30's and 944 Spec for the most part. He uses his tools fairly hard and hasn't had a problem with them. Obviously he hasn't had to warranty the tools as they haven't broken.

So I guess YMMV. I just spent $130.?? on them based on what I know.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

I am going to offer a different analysis to this. My friend that has the Mountain wrenches is a professional tech. Has his own shop working mostly on race cars. Spec E30's and 944 Spec for the most part. He uses his tools fairly hard and hasn't had a problem with them. Obviously he hasn't had to warranty the tools as they haven't broken.

So I guess YMMV. I just spent $130.?? on them based on what I know.

Oh I love them and they make me lots of money. But going in you need to accept failure. Being that they're a pain to warranty, they're not my preferred wrench to do pull ups on. Sometimes you have to, but failures just mean you're with the tool until you can get another.

I just hate when companies dance around warranty stuff. Either make it easy which they could if they wanted to, or don't offer the warranty.

 

[NHtoolguy]

I thought I should give a "shout out" to EZ Red and their great warranty. I bought a set of their metric long locking flex spline drive double box end ratcheting wrenches. Not long after, the lock button on the 14 mm end of the 12/14 wrench came loose and fell out. I contacted EZ Red via e-mail and sent them a picture of the wrench and defective lock. Within a week they sent me a replacement flex end, as well a complete wrench. I was really impressed, and will definitely buy more EZ Red products when needed.