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dhaavers
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The video's not ridiculous, but her voice sure is... 
<Am I bad for having watched it twice?> 
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"The WonderVan"
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dobryan
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Location: Brookeville, MD
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luVWagn
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Location: Snoqualmie (WA)
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| insyncro wrote: |
| luVWagn wrote: |
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| BillWYellowstone wrote: |
| So, did you find the leak? |
Look at the picture, can you? |
Some of us have no idea what is going on in that picture, and would like to learn? I don't even know what the tool is...  |
It is a smoke machine.
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Many thanks for the info, very cool!
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insyncro
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Location: New York
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VW Factory Tool 3058: engine removal tool.
Used at the dealer to remove and install drivelines easily.
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insyncro
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Posts: 15086
Location: New York
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:19 am Post subject: |
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3/4" impact
46mm industrial socket
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boulderdrop
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Posts: 481
Location: Seattle, WA
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hot Damn! I'm always having troubles with pressing stuff with my wobbly harbor-freight-press. It looks like the current equivelent to this is the SP Tools SL11100. I want!
Video of SP Tools SL11100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky0wVGO5Tzc
New at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Tools-SL11100-Manual-Bushing-Kit/dp/B00820LUZO
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Another option
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dobryan
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Location: Brookeville, MD
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Can't resist...
HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer is used as a kind
of divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object we are
trying to hit.
ELECTRIC DRILL:
Normally used for spinning rivets in their holes until you die of old
age, but it also works well for drilling mounting holes just above a fuel
line.
PLIERS:
Used to round off bolt heads.
HACKSAW:
One of a family of cutting tools based on the chaos 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.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH:
Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your
garage on fire.
WHITWORTH (Metric) SOCKETS:
Once used for working on older British vehicles, they are now used
mainly
for impersonating that 9/16-inch or 1/2-inch socket for which you've
been
searching the last 15 minutes.
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
drink
across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you
were drying.
WIRE WHEEL:
Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws the bolt somewhere under the
workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and
hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, "Ouch!"
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK:
Used for lowering a vehicle to the ground after you have installed
your new tires, trapping the jack handle firmly under the wheel.
EIGHT-FOOT-LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2x4:
Used for levering vehicle upward off a hydraulic jack.
TWEEZERS:
A tool for removing wood splinters.
TELEPHONE:
Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another hydraulic
floor jack.
TROUBLE LIGHT:
The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called drop light, it is a
good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise
found in garages at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to
consume 60-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 out 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
pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 60 years
ago, and rounds them off.
PRY BAR:
A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding the clip or bracket you
needed to remove in order to replace a 50-cent part.
HOSE CUTTER:
A tool used to cut hoses 1/2-inch too short.
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'87 Westy w/ 2010 Subaru EJ25 (Vanaru) and Peloquin TBD
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." Robert Louis Stevenson
MD>Canada>AK>WA>OR>CA>AZ>UT>WY>SD
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=620646
Building a bus for travel in Europe (euroBus)
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=695371
The Western Syncro build
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=746794 |
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greenraVR6
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| Rocky Mountain Westy wrote: |
I don't have any pictures and it doesn't have much luxury but it has really helped me out.
So when your allen CV bolts are striped, I take a Snap On 12 point 12 mm socket and pound it over the head of the bolt. It is a tigh enough fit that it works every time. Depending on the job, I sometimes go right to this method. If a couple are stripped and filled with grease this is sometimes faster.
I don't know if other 12mm 12pts work but my snap on is fantasitic.
Try it, way better than vise grips. |
This is brilliant, gonna have to keep this in mind if I run into issues in the future.
The one tool I use fairly often that never lets me down is my line wrench from Mac Tools. The cheap ones from (insert store name with cheap tools) often flex and end up stripping the brake line fittings, but the Mac Tool one is beefy and hasn't stripped one yet. It's a tiny wrench that costs $15 or $20 or whatever but worth every penny.
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rubbachicken
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| greenraVR6 wrote: |
| Rocky Mountain Westy wrote: |
I don't have any pictures and it doesn't have much luxury but it has really helped me out.
So when your allen CV bolts are striped, I take a Snap On 12 point 12 mm socket and pound it over the head of the bolt. It is a tigh enough fit that it works every time. Depending on the job, I sometimes go right to this method. If a couple are stripped and filled with grease this is sometimes faster.
I don't know if other 12mm 12pts work but my snap on is fantasitic.
Try it, way better than vise grips. |
This is brilliant, gonna have to keep this in mind if I run into issues in the future.
The one tool I use fairly often that never lets me down is my line wrench from Mac Tools. The cheap ones from (insert store name with cheap tools) often flex and end up stripping the brake line fittings, but the Mac Tool one is beefy and hasn't stripped one yet. It's a tiny wrench that costs $15 or $20 or whatever but worth every penny. |
similar idea, file the edge off a 1/4"hex bit, taper it a little, then beat that into the allen hole on the CV bolt, i've yet to be beaten this way, i don't like/use 12 point sockets as they tend to round off nuts/bolts to easily
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gears
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I've been playing with my tranz tools lately. Here's one of the most important ones:
VW 385/1
.. for setting pinion depth in VW & Porsche IRS transaxles.
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Alaric.H
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| gears wrote: |
I've been playing with my tranz tools lately. Here's one of the most important ones:
VW 385/1
.. for setting pinion depth in VW & Porsche IRS transaxles. |
That is a nice piece of kit. Now if you could make a video of how to use it on a trans. |
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gears
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Ha .. I'm afraid I've barely passed photo posting 101 ..
A small in/lb torque wrench with memory dial makes checking diff bearing turning torque (preload) an easy task:
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Alaric.H
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I have one of these old fashion ones.
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gears
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I'd like to find one of those ..
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indytriple
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El_Güero
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| gears wrote: |
I've been playing with my tranz tools lately. Here's one of the most important ones:
VW 385/1
.. for setting pinion depth in VW & Porsche IRS transaxles. |
where can this be obtained and what´s the cost of it????
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Alaric.H
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| gears wrote: |
I've been playing with my tranz tools lately. Here's one of the most important ones:
VW 385/1
.. for setting pinion depth in VW & Porsche IRS transaxles. |
where can this be obtained and what´s the cost of it???? |
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1437290 |
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gears
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You can't change the pinion bearing in a waterboxer's trans without tool #2052:
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rubbachicken
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probably not a luxury to most, to me though 
$35 roll cab
next we have an 8" bench grinder that i can bolt to the roll cab
free on craigs list
and as of today a vise $20 again from craigs list, also can be bolted to the top
the plywood in the back ground is a ramp, so i can push the roll cab into lucy and tie it to the passenger seat with a ratchet strap
i need to try and convince mrs rubbachicken that i need another vanagon now, so i can haul my tools around without trashing lucy, so far she is not overly keen on the idea
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Alaric.H
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Tool for measuring the head volume for calculating compression.
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