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Date:         Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:18:09 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: LVC: Tools- tranny swap success/ Gearwrenches and Harbor
              Frieght Tranny Jack
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I use a gear wrench and a short piece cut from a regular 17mm Allen wrench to remove the fill and drain plugs on the transmission. That combination works really well!

Mike

Tom Buese wrote: > On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Jim Felder wrote: > >> I want to chime in on behalf of the gear wrenches. They are a tool >> that I thought was pretty useless until I needed one... I quickly >> bought more. They speed up a lot of general nut and bolt removal and >> replacement, and they can get to some things (speaking 2.1 and diesel >> here) that you almost can't get any other way. I only bought the 10, >> 12, and 13, and I used them all the time. I don't know if they 17 and >> 19 would put up with the abuse they get, but I didn't think the >> smaller wrenches would either--they do. > > The 17 mm is the 1st one I bought for getting at the engine/tranny > nut behind the fan housing at the starter on an early AC. I can't > even do it w/o it at my advanced age of poor flexibilty, arthritic > degeneracy. I have both the Sears & the cheaper HF ones, & they both > seem to work well when needed in those hard to reach, non socket > accessible areas. > > Pax, > > Tom B.-always the right tool for the job, or the right mechanic? >


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