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Re: Rear axle help, please

To: ccrobins@ktc.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Rear axle help, please
From: REwald9535@aol.com
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:35:15 EST
In a message dated 2/2/99 7:41:48 PM SA Eastern Standard Time,
ccrobins@ktc.com writes:

>   I believe in quality tools most of the time but the emergency tool
>  kits that I carry in each vehicle are cheap stuff.  That way, if I get
>  ripped off, I don't lose much.  The Craftsman and SO tools stay at home.

After a zillion dollars in Snap-On et al, Craftsman IS the cheap stuff <G>
>  
>    Ditto on the flare nut wrenches.  They're worth evrery penney.  It
>  sometimes takes a lot of force to break old flare fittings loose.  
>  
>    For LBC content:  The banjo bolts I got from Moss for my new B fuel
>  pump are chrome plated.  They look nice but none of my wrenches fit
>  them!  They are just enough oversize that the wrench that should fit
>  doesn't and the next size up (in 32nds) is loose.  Couldn't even get a
>  metric to fit well.    GRRRRRR.....   Hard to get an adjustable wrench
>  in there....... More GRRRRRRR....... ;^)

Here is a use for those cheap China or India wrenchs, go sort through the
cheap stuff and I'll bet you can find a wrench that fits do to poor quality
control.
Either that or you can go get a British Standard Cresent wrench.

Rick

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