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      03-13-2017, 09:48 AM   #23
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AAA membership and a cell phone
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      03-13-2017, 09:00 PM   #24
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AAA membership and a cell phone
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I was gonna say...


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Just get a good phone and have a good mechanic on speed dial. Save yourself a ton of grief.
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      03-13-2017, 09:16 PM   #26
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well where do you put your tools? lol
Hanging on the wall in the garage. Each with their own space, so when you're done working on the car you can immediately see if any tool is missing. If you arrive home from work and you're walking into the house, you'll see that the wife or kids has "borrowed" anything and not returned it. That way you don't take the seats out only to find you've no longer got a torx driver to finish the job.

Generally I leave sockets in the box they came in, and I've got two sets of screwdrivers & spanners (not that you need two sets, it just tends to happen as you get older) one on the wall, another still in their box/roll for jobs on-the-go.

A toolbox suits people who are working on-site, but you're forever rifling through the thing to find a tool from the bottom, and forever loosing stuff because it's not clear what's missing.

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Any recommendations for the OBD2 scan tool? I've got a beater '03 Toyota that I need to check a code on. Thanks.
An android tablet with a ODB2 cable. It's probably more expensive than a cheap ebay scanner, but then you've got all the equipment you need for a MHD flash tune (and hopefully soon a xHP TCU Tune) later in life
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      03-14-2017, 06:52 AM   #27
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Tool chests have wheels for a reason...

To roll under the car near the area you are working under...
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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      03-14-2017, 07:38 AM   #28
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Regarding tool boxes. I have a cantilever tool box and I love this thing!

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Floor jack, jack stands, socket set, wrench set, torque wrench, pliers, screwdriver set, cordless impact, allen wrenches is a good start.
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Keep handbook in car, have spare fuses and bulbs and a few simple tools in the car, litre of oil, latex gloves and a puncture repair kit with tyre inflator should the cat not have a spare wheel of some kind. Cell phone with charger cable.
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Regarding tool boxes. I have a cantilever tool box and I love this thing!

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I got a cheap box from lowes a little while ago, super helpful in organizing and just rolling the box to whatever vehicle im working on.
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just a high end toolbox from home depot has served me well. 99% of cars stuff can be handled with that. i got one for 150-200 bucks.

anything more than an intake or exhaust i'm calling up an indy shop.
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Tools...start with the basics. Socket set, screw drivers, trim tools, etc.
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      10-12-2021, 10:11 AM   #34
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Though a few have mentioned torque wrenches, at some point it may be worth the upgrade to a digital torque wrench. One of the things you don't want to cheap out on is properly-torqued bolts and lugs.
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Though a few have mentioned torque wrenches, at some point it may be worth the upgrade to a digital torque wrench. One of the things you don't want to cheap out on is properly-torqued bolts and lugs.
I've tuned, tinkered and upgraded probably more to my car than 99% of this forum, but all done with old britool torque wrenches from the 60's and 70's (these don't even have a ratcheting head, however their designstyle does have some advantages).
Never felt the need for a digital one. The premium price they cost is better spent on more normal (and specialty) tools if such a decision were to occur.
I have worked with them and only in some situations they are maybe more ergonomic (and of course in professional production enviroments they offer logging of torque data for quality control etc). But when using them I'm mostly in fear of damaging the electronics. When tinkering usually my tools end up all togheter on a cart or table, including the toque wrenches. Not a good enviroment for the weak lcd displays.

Besides, on most parts of the car, the "properly torqued" parts is often more that bolts hold the same torque than extreme accuracy of that torque.
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I've tuned, tinkered and upgraded probably more to my car than 99% of this forum, but all done with old britool torque wrenches from the 60's and 70's (these don't even have a ratcheting head, however their designstyle does have some advantages).
Never felt the need for a digital one. The premium price they cost is better spent on more normal (and specialty) tools if such a decision were to occur.
I have worked with them and only in some situations they are maybe more ergonomic (and of course in professional production enviroments they offer logging of torque data for quality control etc). But when using them I'm mostly in fear of damaging the electronics. When tinkering usually my tools end up all togheter on a cart or table, including the toque wrenches. Not a good enviroment for the weak lcd displays.

Besides, on most parts of the car, the "properly torqued" parts is often more that bolts hold the same torque than extreme accuracy of that torque.
Do you ever find yourself setting each mechanical torque wrench to one verified torque, and then end up having a bunch of adjustable manual torque wrenches that're all set to their own single-torque settings? That's how I operated (guess I'm lazy), which led me to a digital one. I use exclusively manual, non-ratcheting (wrench-head) TRs on all of my electronics, I'll agree with you on that, along with the fear of smashing the LCD.

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Aside from the basic tools, I bought a Viair tire inflator from 4wheelonline so no need for me to go to a gas station or tire shop.
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Do you ever find yourself setting each mechanical torque wrench to one verified torque, and then end up having a bunch of adjustable manual torque wrenches that're all set to their own single-torque settings?
You have multiple torque wrenches of the same model/same torque range?
I don't; I use then as they are ment to be.
I set the desired torque, and when using them and I need a different torque, I set that different torque.
When I'm done with the job I set the wrenches to 0 and put them away.

I have 4 wrenches but in ascending range span.

In some cases torque wrenches with a compact head size can be very handy.
Or torque wrenches that can adapt open box heads like some stahlwille manoskops (sadly those are very expensive)
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