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power tools and can't forget about the 10mm for the body parts. and the most universal thing... zip ties haha
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Missing my sr20 b14, but still showing some love. Possible new project when I return!
Old car: 1999 Sentra SE-L Turbo: USDM sr20de, t25 turbo, hot shot intercooler kit, BIG ass fmic, nismo fpr, autometer fp gauge/boost gauge, mbc set at stock boost for now! 7psi= more traction>11psi=less traction.
Pulled from my all-time favorite column from one of my all-time favorite authors, Peter Egan. I still have that original 1996 Road and Track article pasted up on my garage wall. Note there are 25 items listed here; score yourself from a 0 to 25, with a point for each time you nod with understandong at an item (a bonus point if you can show the scar). 0-5 points and you're just getting started; 6-15 points and you've been around for a while; 16+ points and you've been around long enough; over 25 points (remember the bonuses) and you've been around far too long.
If you have not read Peter Egan's work, you owe it to yourself to pick up copies of his three books, "Side Glances"; it'll remind you on those tough afternoons why we keep doing this...GA
The Right Tools for the Job
Hammer: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive car parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.
Mechanic's Knife: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing convertible tops or tonneau covers.
Electric Hand Drill: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling rollbar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake line that goes to the rear axle.
Hacksaw: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
Vise-Grips: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
Oxyacetelene Torch: Used almost entirely for lighting those stale garage cigarettes you keep hidden in the back of the Whitworth socket drawer (What wife would think to look in there?) because you can never remember to buy lighter fluid for the Zippo lighter you got from the PX at Fort Campbell
Zippo Lighter: See oxyacetelene torch.
Whitworth Sockets: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for hiding six-month old Salems from the sort of person who would throw them away for no good reason.
Drill Press: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against the Rolling Stones poster over the bench grinder.
Wire Wheel: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar callouses in about the time it takes you to say, "Django Reinhardt".
Hydraulic Floor Jack: Used for lowering a Mustang to the ground after you have installed a set of Ford Motorsports lowered road springs, trappng the jack handle firmly under the front air dam.
Eight-Foot Long Douglas Fir 2X4: Used for levering a car upward off a hydraulic jack.
Tweezers: A tool for removing wood splinters.
Phone: Tool for calling your neighbor Chris to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.
Snap-On Gasket Scraper: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.
E-Z Out Bolt and Stud Extractor: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.
Timing Light: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup on crankshaft pulleys.
Two-Ton Hydraulic Engine Hoist: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and hydraulic clutch lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.
Craftsman 1/2 x 16-inch Screwdriver: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.
Battery Electrolyte Tester: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.
Aviation Metal Snips: See Hacksaw.
Trouble Light: The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin", which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.
Phillips Screwdriver: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads.
Air Compressor: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty suspension bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and rounds them off.
Grease Gun: A messy tool for checking to see if your zerk fittings are still plugged with rust.
Ratcheting end wrench set
1/2" and 3/4" breaker bars
Craftsman tool set
Earthquake Impact Wrench ($79.99 from Harbor Frieght, 825 lb-ft of tq!)
Engine Hoist
MIG Welder
Drill Press
Angle Grinder
Mechanic's gloves from Pep Boys (those rubber gloves dont last that long and these are much better for preventing scars and burns...)
Flourescent lightbulbs and halogen lights
1. FSM
2. Latex Gloves
3. 24hr Fitness Membership <-- good for stuck bolts
4. Oil funnel
5. Cheap pliers <-- they never break because some one steals them 1st
6. Cheap screwdrivers <-- see above
7. Craftman 6 point socket set
8. Lights no over ever complains about it being to bright when your working on a car
9. Home Depot nuts and bolts isle
10. Greg V @ Mossy Nissan
definately the air tools , and the ratcheting wrenches, and the forum
some runner ups...oven, fridge, microwave, telephone, tv, computer, 500 watt halogen work light, really long extension cords, allen wrenches(especially the ones for ratchets!), tranny jack,sledge hammer, oh yeah and dont forget the clutch alignment tool!!
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1991 xe....dead(boneyard)
1994 e.....dead(parted out)
1993 nx2k....dead(road kill hit by a f150)(parted out)
91 sentra E jdm sr20de swapped, HIEPDTO^UFSW...dead(chopped up, molested and parted out)
2007 hyundai accent DD for now
1987 pulsar se AWD-T
www.lubedealer.com/dkinney
for all your amsoil synthetic oils and filters
also sell ngk , mother, wix, and other products!
the earthquake ROCKS. Dave Allen (of Dave's Asspipes) tipped me off to the power of the earthquake. you HAVE to use two hands when using it, or it will twist your wrist pretty bad. i was trying to unstick the axle nut, and it wouldnt come off despite about 5 feet worth of breaker bar (thank God that breaker bar was a craftsman and didnt break, or i would have been picking shrapnel from my eyes). about 15 seconds worth of Earthquake power and it came right off. sounds beefy too. at $79.99, even if it breaks once a year, its still worth it. relatively compact too, and has a funky/cool orange and black crinkle coat.
Air tools
Breaker bars
My Mac tools pry bar set(4 1/2 foot pry bars rock)
test light
multimeter(DMM)
BFH
slide hammer
torque wrench
dial caliper
case of "soda"
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Jerry James Hays 9/1/1982-5/14/2006
