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Re: Image comments for Round 6 - WTF are these?
Posted by: Mrkim
Date: 05/09/2011 12:42PM
BTW, just as an addenum to what 9er said about #s 2 and 3 in the pic.

If you're workin on a car with all wheel disc brakes #2 is a real time saver when you get to the back brakes. While I usually just reach for a set of vise grip C clamps to compress the front calipers when installin new pads this won't do a thing on the rear calipers since they are typically controlled by both pressure from the hydraulic system to actuate the brakes and by cable to operate the parking/emergency brake section. The cable usually acts on a ratcheting action that will increasingly rotate the piston caliper outward to help accommodate for wear in the pads so when installing new pads the caliper must be screwed back in to allow you to install the new pads.

Though all manner of other tools can be used to get this done, nothin works as well or as easily as this lil $2-3 jewel will. It has different sized and shaped/spaced ears on each of the 6 faces of the tool to fit pretty much every variation of rear caliper out there and then once you've located the right side face for what you're workin on you just slip a 3/8" ratchet into the square drive hole on the opposing side and get down to business grinning smiley

#3 is problee one of the oldest tools in my collection since it dates all the way back to about 1972. I always heard it called a brake spoon tool and can be really helpful in tryin to manually adjust a set of drum brake shoes. I have another one I also bought with this one in a set of the 2 wrenches that has a bent tip on one end like this one and a bent tapered point tip on the other end. I've never found the pointed tip to be of any use but the one shown was put to good use adjustin the brakes on car #1 in my collection, a 60 model VW Bug with the original 36hp MONSTER motor .... damn how I hated that anemic fucker (*horse*)

smoking smiley

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