Mathew, It may not have relevance to your carb situation, but I have found a magnetically charged Phillips screwdriver really helpful in retrieving the odd nut or bolt dropped in a bad place. Rides in my van along with the 7,8,10,13, 19 mm hexes, old piton hammer, needle noses, vicegrips, duct tape, baling wire, extra 50/50 coolant, analog cell phone and auto club card. Here's to boring road trips, Drew 83.5 Westy Park City, Utah
> So what tools do we carry in our busses on a daily basis- not a road-trip > basis? > > I'll start: in my bus i have a full set of cheap-o metric sockets > and wrenches, pliers, needle nose, cutters, large cresent wrench and large > channel locks, Bentley, Hoses, wire and VOM. And the most useful tool- > AAA Card! > > The reason i ask is that this morning i had some auto problems. You see, i > was taking some stuff to the dump for my advisor (slave labor??) and > stopped at a hardware store for some new Carharts (pants). When i came > back out my truck wouldn't start. Hmmmm. So i pulled off the air filter > and proceeded to drop the air-filter bolt down the carb! Woops. I didn't > have any hand tools in my truck so i had to borrow a cresent wrench to > remove the carb to get the bolt out. Oh yeah, i used to carry tools but > they got stolen sometime ago... > > Cheers > Matthew > > > Matthew Pollard http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 > Dept. of Chemistry http://www.chem.uidaho.edu > University of Idaho http://www.uidaho.edu |
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