tool roll

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Originally Posted by jik22

I bought a cheapish 3/8 socket set, screwdriver set and set of Metric and Imperial combination spanners from Supacheap or Repco, and added a few bits such as pliers, molegrips, cutters, crimp pliers, hammer, mallet, multi-meter, etc. Added to that is electrical spares, hose clips, exhaust putty, stop leak, sealant, etc. which I hope would cover most things.

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throw away the cheap 3/8ths socket set...

actually

THROW AWAY ANY cheap Bihex or single hex sockets (or spanners) you have...

apart from the injury you can cause yourself when they slip off they result in damaged nuts and bolt heads which means my expensive sockets will not fit correctly and I have to resort to butchering, which when it is my car I dont mind... but when its some one elses I like to at least be able to pretend like I know what im doing......


plus I dont like working around cars with bits of flesh hanging from them, its icky...

:)

For those local to brisbane/ipswich.

there are a couple of places that offer ADF members a discount on tools. IF you want to spend the bucks to buy some good stuff for your wagons Im happy to come along in my discount gear with my ID and help you out if it means you'll buy yourself decent tools as opposed to kmart or supacheap budget line crapola..

(not knocking all of supercheap they do stock some good tools but everyone buys the elcheapos)

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

throw away the cheap 3/8ths socket set...

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Cheap being relative to my Snap-On's in the garage, which I've had for probably close to 20 years, and aren't going in the truck to get nicked! :)

It wasn't the cheapest thing in the shop, but buggered if I can remember the brand name now...

There is too much in the box to mention but the basics are:

O/R Spanners, Kinchrome (good enough and not too exy) in AF and Met and a second set of Stanley O/Rs in AF as well.
Ball and Peen
Decent screw driver set
Kinchrome 3/8 socket set same as Daves
Pliers, multi grips, viceys, shifters
Elec tools like crimp pliers, strippers and test light
Selection of wire, nuts and bolts and srews in the bottom
In a second box is all my electrical terminals, fuses and solder, srink wrap etc

When you own a Landy, you need more than a small tool roll and when traveling you tend to find that you use it more to fix other peoples cars than your own so it's no good just carrying L/R specific tools.

Get a good canterlever box or small chest and load it up with good quality general tools and then put your specifics in with that.

Theres alot more scattered through the Disco but too much to mention here

Two things I dont leave home without:~

Test light
Side cutters

Then again, I make a living off those two items so it figures...

I'm with blknight.aus, I hate cheap spanners. I actually take kincrome ratchet spanners...I love them, and I've got the combination sets of both metric and imperial. Mind you, they aint all that cheap, but not all that expensive either.

Another goodie I try to keep is a torch...a good torch. I tend to have mine on me at all times, but I do have a maglite spare in my vehilces. They're worth their weight in gold. My work torch was expensive, as far as torches go, but the white light LEDs means the batteries last and the light is great for detail.

And last little 'odd' tidbit is a telescopic magnet. Very useful when you drop things in hard/impossible places. And great for hunting for screws you just dropped on the ground. Or in the oil pan...or anywhere else you'd prefer not to put your hand.

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Originally Posted by mcrover

There is too much in the box to mention but the basics are:

O/R Spanners, Kinchrome (good enough and not too exy) in AF and Met and a second set of Stanley O/Rs in AF as well.
Ball and Peen
Decent screw driver set
Kinchrome 3/8 socket set same as Daves
Pliers, multi grips, viceys, shifters
Elec tools like crimp pliers, strippers and test light
Selection of wire, nuts and bolts and srews in the bottom
In a second box is all my electrical terminals, fuses and solder, srink wrap etc

When you own a Landy, you need more than a small tool roll and when traveling you tend to find that you use it more to fix other peoples cars than your own so it's no good just carrying L/R specific tools.

Get a good canterlever box or small chest and load it up with good quality general tools and then put your specifics in with that.

Theres alot more scattered through the Disco but too much to mention here

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I have gone through a few metal toolboxes in my 4WD's over the years, those with shelves and the cantilever type, the shelves buckle and bend under the weight of the tools in them when on rough and corrugated roads and the tools end up all over the place. I bought a H/D Kinchrome toolbox for about $300 and when I got it home I noticed a sticker on the back that said that if this toolbox was to be carried in a vehicle then the warranty was null and void, so I took it back and got my money back. I am going to get the bloke at the canvas place to make me a tool roll, a big one, Regards Frank.

LOL. McRover I was thinking the same - can't even recall some of those bits & bobs tucked away in "the car kit".:p


I have a set of those supercreep "superworks gold" in a roll. They are every bit as strong as anything else on the market (and I just gave my 8mm a hiding yesterday) BUT they are just not as nice in the hand as the better stuff if you were twisting spanners all day.

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Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Hi Dullbird
Instead of a Tool Roll I got a tool bag.
Around $10 from mitre10,seems robust enough.
The design is a copy of the old leather"Gladstone Bags"?????
I saw a GMC version in Bunnings last visit but didnt pay much attention to it.
Mine has plenty of pockets sewn in,I tend to just throw all the important bits out off the toolbox and put them back after the trip.
Must get around to swapmeets ant buy some secondhand tools to keep in the bag!!!!!
Andrew

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yeh a bag is a nice idea as you can carry more junk, but the reason i want a roll is i have built storage at the back of my disco (can see in my projects section) and either side is to large gaps so i always figured i would utilise this space so one side is going to have a tool roll in it and the other side will have a first aid kit in it then depending how flush i'm feeling i may get some of those small nets like the discos have in the roof to cover the holes stop crap falling out

I need to do this myself. I have a heap of Sidchrome sockets, open ended spanners and ring spanners etc but don't want to lose them by carrying them seperate in the car.
I plan on getting a tool bag (like a small eschelon army bag we had in Telstra) so I don't lose stuff and can put small spare parts in too.

Has anyone mentioned an appropriate sized hub spanner yet? Can't change a CV without one.

A couple of boxes of those blue nitrile gloves. Makes getting back into the car much nicer.

And saves some of the skinned knuckles if you're working with the B tools.

And some 5mm and 6mm hose, and a whacking big lever for when things are stuck or when you remember that they did the wheel nuts up with the big air socket.

:D

Cheers
Simon

This is the tool roll I use, plus a socket set. It is light and doesn,t take up a lot of room.

http://www.aulro.com/app/data/500/medium/TK1018.JPG