What basic tools to you take on a trip?
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Melting Slicks
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Re: What basic tools to you take on a trip? (Professor)
Here's a question ~
If you were trying to reduce the number of sockets/wrenches to include, does anyone know the sizes that are NEVER used. Seems a waste to take unnecessary tools. Just a thought.
tuband
If you were trying to reduce the number of sockets/wrenches to include, does anyone know the sizes that are NEVER used. Seems a waste to take unnecessary tools. Just a thought.
tuband
Burning Brakes
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From: Patterson CA
Re: What basic tools to you take on a trip? (tuband)
I think 10mm, 14mm, 15mm and 17mm deep and short are pretty important sockets to have. Flashlight, blanket, flares, jumper cables, serpentine belt.
I also have a piece of hard wood about 14x14x1 to put under the jack in case I have to change a tire in soft/damp dirt or gravel (AGAIN! :banghead: ), I had to do this once in my other car because it was the only safe place to pull over but the stupid jack kept sinking until I found something on the side of the road to put under it. Now I carry one with me and it fits behind the passenger seat, it’s painted black so it doesn’t stand out and look ugly.
{Edit} Oh, and shop rags and those blue rubber gloves so you don't get the interior all gunky and oily after you do an emergency repair. {/Edit}
[Modified by VetBoy89, 10:30 AM 2/26/2003]
I also have a piece of hard wood about 14x14x1 to put under the jack in case I have to change a tire in soft/damp dirt or gravel (AGAIN! :banghead: ), I had to do this once in my other car because it was the only safe place to pull over but the stupid jack kept sinking until I found something on the side of the road to put under it. Now I carry one with me and it fits behind the passenger seat, it’s painted black so it doesn’t stand out and look ugly.
{Edit} Oh, and shop rags and those blue rubber gloves so you don't get the interior all gunky and oily after you do an emergency repair. {/Edit}
[Modified by VetBoy89, 10:30 AM 2/26/2003]
