I was at my local Harbor Freight today and I saw the the "S" wrench set is on closeout. They had about 10 sets left, I bought one for spares. Every 1st gen owner ought to have a set of these. The 13 mm one is perfect for the bottom injection pump nut, and the 15 mm is useful on the turbo and the vacuum pump. At $7.87 it's too good a deal to pass up.

 

Gotta love harbor freight....i know i do

 

If it wasn't for Harbor Freight, and starving Chinamans, my tool-box would be pretty near empty.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

we get a lot of stuff at harbor freight. granted, its only good for a coupla uses till it breaks, but we ususally lose them so its easier to replace a $5 ratchet than a $25 dollar one....

 

I like Snap-On myself, but that's because I used to be a shop mechanic and the snap-on truck extended us all credit. I built a pretty nice set of metric anyway, and I still hunt down a snap-on truck sometimes when I need something special.

But it's hard to argue with a set of wrenches for $7.87, even if they do only last one useage. loose a snap on ratchet and you're out $50.

 

Without Harbor Freight sockets, finding proper-sized shims would be a lot harder of a job...

 

are they even close to stuff like snap-on and proto ? sorry if a little off topic.

 

No, these tools are from overseas and made cheaper. With that said, there still good to have in some situations, if you lose them, do not use them much, etc.

 

They look pretty crappy, but I beat on the 15 mm one with a hammer while removing a turbo and it didn't bend or break.

I buy Harbor Freight for stuff I am not going to use a lot. They are good for tools to toss in your truck box in case of a breakdown, but they won't stand up to everyday use.

In the case of these "S" wrenches, there is nothing comparable available from Sears, and for what Snap-On wants I could buy all the "S" wrenches my local Harbor Freight has.

 

Harbor Freight has three grades of tools.

They have generic tools that are okay.

The Central Forge are next in quality.

The best are Pittsburgh Forge, and they seem to me to be as good as anything Snap On has, without the highway robbery price.

I get as rough on tools as anyone, and I have yet to have a Harbor Freight wrench perform unsatisfactorily.

I was at a friends shop and a MAC TOOL truck stopped in.

I took a look inside the huge truck/tool-store.

I didn't see anything for less than fifty bucks, not even a screwdriver.

Where these guys get people is by allowing credit/payments, and by convincing them that they need something else as soon as they almost get out of debt.

With the prices they charge, they are in the clear with the first downpayment, and the next twelve payments are profit.

I never buy anything on credit/payments, not trucks, not land, not tools, nothing; so, I shop at Harbor Freight.

 

That is a great way to live Bearkiller. Did you pay cash for your house?

 

I paid cash for the land and a Band-saw-mill; then, I worked like a slave for about a year, cutting down big poplar trees and sawing them into lumber.

Some days, I would saw lumber in the morning, and nail it up that evening.

When I needed nails/etc., I would work at something a few days, then back to the sawing/nailing.

I realize I couldn't have done this in a more communist oriented society, what with their strict money-grubbing codes and crooked permit selling agents.

I guess it is one advantage of living way back in the sticks; it still remotely resembles the "land of the free".

One small word of advice, never move in a building that isn't finished, if you ever actually want it finished.

 

Cool, my Dad had a wood-mizer and it was pretty neat. I respect your way of doing things. One of my best friends is a Kentucky man. He is on the road back from Ken. from seeing his Mammy, on way to NC now, and I will see him tonight. Some day I am going to be out of debt, I'm getting there. God is good to us.

 

A friend of mine purchased a 1/4" drive socket/ratchet set with two extensions from Snap-On. It was over $200. I showed him a Sears sales flyer that had 1/4" and 3/8' socket sets, each with ratchets, extensions, etc. And the case actually had a lid, unlike the Snap On. It was on sale for $90. Snap On, Mac,Matco, etc stuff is nice, but the prices are nuts. It would be different if they offered cash pricing .

I was looking through a Matco catalog. how about $1100 upgraded set of casters for your new $7500 (empty!) tool box. I'd think a $7500 box would have pretty spiffy casters to begin with.

 

Anybody got a part number on those "S" wrenches - can't seem to find it on the web and I'm heading to HF tonight.

are these them?

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=2986

ITEM 2986-4VGA
PRICE $9.99



unfortionately these are SAE and it sounds like I need the metric ones???