Pullers, how do you organize yours?

[Badasssapper67]

Thought it would be interesting to see your pullers, hub, steering wheel, axle, harmonic balancer etc, as well as see how you organize yours.

I need to come up with something better than the pile of mish-mash parts in a drawer that barely opens. Haha.

 

[Finky198]

A thread I started not to long ago

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374841

 

[toddacimer]

For the last few years it's been in the puller pile in my plier drawer. I haven't found a better place.

 

[turnthewrench 2.0]

For the last few years it's been in the puller pile in my plier drawer. I haven't found a better place.

PRICELESS!

 

[nbruno]

My 2 & 3 jaw pullers reside in a small plastic tool box that I keep on a shelf next to the blow molded cases that hold my slide hammers, pulley pullers, bolt grip pullers, bearing separators, etc. I hate the amount of space the blow molded cases take up but everything stays where it should and I don't have to go digging.

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[Mohawk Dave]

I have a 12" deep, 5' wide, 24" depth Vidmar drawer separated into 3 areas. 2 jaw, 3 jaw, and then misc. Parts in the areas.

I could not get them to lay flat obviously, so they are piled on top of each other in their respective areas.

I tried a lot of different configurations and drawer types and this is the only one that I have found that actually works. The bummer is it takes up a lot of space if you don't have a lot of space

 

[zmotorsports]

Most all of mine are in a drawer under my workbench within easy reach. I do have three large Posi-Lock pullers that are too large to fit in the drawer that I have in one of my cabinets.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

Inexpensive $5-8 plastic tool boxes work well for pullers. Especially helpful if you get tool boxes that are colored in red or blue instead of standard black to help identify them. Keeps all the bits in one place for that specialty tool and less likely to have jaws and bolts get buried and lost in a drawer.

 

[22george]

I put the loose pieces that go together in a box and put all of them in a filing cabinet

 

[LXCam]

Welp with several years worth of various misc purchasing those go into a 24 x 18 x 8 drawer



Which also pulls double duty for a couple cased ones I use all the time.



There's also another 24 x 24 x 10 drawer that has several cased sets

-him, this one didn't load, oh well-

But the pride and joy of my collection is this wall mounted snappy set a buddy of mine gave me a decade ago. God I luv this set, unless it's a specialized puller this is where I head 90% of the time. One of these days I'm gonna do something cool with this, I'm just not sure what that'll be yet .

 

[BDT/NWMN]

I used a dedicated SnapOn roller cabinet to hold various puller sets and accessories. nbruno mentions His special puller sets are left intact in their blow molded cases, which are stored on a shelf . I agree; except store My cased sets in a large file cabinet.
Finky198 built the wall cabinet I have wanted for years.
My plan is to build the wall cabinet/rack, and use an overhead shelf to hold the cases.
The SnapOn roller cabinet has gone back to regular shop use, and the large file cabinet will be put to other uses in the lower shop.
In a private shop; We can do whatever We choose to look at. I enjoy the sight of neatly organized" racks of tools. It is My choice who enters the door, and I have the keys.

In a Commercial or Dealership Shop; where the "lock it or lose it" approach was necessary; My tools and equipment was stored in a locked tool box.

I can hopefully spare someone a bit of grief by bringing this up; but if there is "questionable foot traffic" near Your tool area; the lockable storage would be advisable.

 

[BDT/NWMN]

That picture is suitable for a Christmas Card. Pure Beauty

 

[LXCam]

That picture is suitable for a Christmas Card. Pure Beauty

That's not a bad idea, I'm sure the wife would be soooo proud.

 

[bert1913]

i hollowed out my milwaukee corded circular saw case and store my 2 and 3 jaw pullers in it

 

[lis2323]

I just hung mine. Nothing fancy. Typical farmshop style.

 

[rharman]

Clear plastic shoe box from Container Store and that goes in the big bottom drawer of the tool chest.

Those Container Store shoe/boot boxes are great for almost everything.

 

[kkroger]

I get $2 zippered nylon pouches at Wal-Mart and put like items in there, my Lisle pickle Fork set is in one, my gear puller set is in another, the power Steering pulley puller set is in a plastic case it came in, bearing splitters hang near the press, I generally don't use ball joint presses and the like, I use the big press and just take the stuff off the car. Even when I didn't have the press I used an air hammer and a hydraulic jack to remove the lowers on GM cars...

 

[crewchief888]

mine were always neatly arranged in a single drawer in the roller cab, including the slide hammers. strangely enough thats the only set of slides ive ever replaced in that box since i bought it in '85

my service truck is a jumbled mess,in a shared drawer with 3/4" dr sockets, and some misc stuff. i only carry a couple pullers that i have to have, slide hammers are stashed in another compartment in the truck

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

I love those Snap On puller boards. I have the bare board but not the full set of pullers for it. My rag tag band of miss fit pullers got hung on what little wall space I could spare. Ed.

 

[pi_guy]

I have a KRA two bank box designated as my press box.
It is filled with press tools from clamshell bearing remover to slide hammers and adapters of all size and shape.

 

[Badasssapper67]

I have a 12" deep, 5' wide, 24" depth Vidmar drawer separated into 3 areas. 2 jaw, 3 jaw, and then misc. Parts in the areas.

I could not get them to lay flat obviously, so they are piled on top of each other in their respective areas.

I tried a lot of different configurations and drawer types and this is the only one that I have found that actually works. The bummer is it takes up a lot of space if you don't have a lot of space

Could you post a picture or two?

 

[Badasssapper67]

Welp with several years worth of various misc purchasing those go into a 24 x 18 x 8 drawer



Which also pulls double duty for a couple cased ones I use all the time.



There's also another 24 x 24 x 10 drawer that has several cased sets

-him, this one didn't load, oh well-

But the pride and joy of my collection is this wall mounted snappy set a buddy of mine gave me a decade ago. God I luv this set, unless it's a specialized puller this is where I head 90% of the time. One of these days I'm gonna do something cool with this, I'm just not sure what that'll be yet .

GAVE??? Wow, thats one great friend!

 

[Badasssapper67]

I have a KRA two bank box designated as my press box.
It is filled with press tools from clamshell bearing remover to slide hammers and adapters of all size and shape.

Yeah, that's one thing I have to do also, figure out how to store all the press related items. I've just got a cheapo budget press now, but I'd like to fab one up one day.
Just like I want to fab a gantry crane and a horizontal metal band saw, etc..
But still, pressing the brake disc off the hub of my wife's Durango made me see the value of having a good press but Im sick of walking around it and knocking all the spacers and splitters and such off of it

 

[metaldad]

my large 3 leg pullers fit in what crapsman used to call an underseat plastic 18'' tool boxes
my larger push pullers with bearing splitters fit in small ammo cans.
my smaller ones are tossed into an olde 18'' crapsman steel tool box, along with threaded rods/ studs, washers, nuts. that box is farcking heavy.
still have to figger out how to store all the components of my new internal jaw puller. i bought some steel stack on boxes off ebay. the slide is too long.

 

[Mohawk Dave]

Could you post a picture or two?

Here you go.

Top one is bushing drivers, slide hammers, etc (with a ATS bead roller and a magnaflux gun that shouldn't be in that drawer.)

The bigger bottom is drawer is the pullers. 3 jaw at bottom left, 2 jaw bottom center, and accessories at bottom right. In the rear is larger stuff plus kits/sets.

Like I said, I tried other ways. I had a full on Kennedy 26" that was busting at the seams with the pullers in it. But it sucked b/c you had 2 or 3 drawers just for 2 jaw, and then the same again for 3 jaw etc.