# Wrench question **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696 "2017-01-18T02:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/42 "2017-01-19T00:58:45Z")
Just for the fun of it I looked at tool chests with work surface and did see a need to spend 800.00. ---
**Author:** ![TheMidnightNarwhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/themidnightnarwhal/32/5375_2.png) [@TheMidnightNarwhal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheMidnightNarwhal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/43 "2017-01-19T01:13:14Z")
Looks like you missed where I explained it, ---
**Author:** ![TheMidnightNarwhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/themidnightnarwhal/32/5375_2.png) [@TheMidnightNarwhal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheMidnightNarwhal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/44 "2017-01-19T01:17:10Z")
Ok let’s do a quick recap. Wrenches - Didn’t have, now I do Stubby wrewnches - Didn’t have, now I do Ratchet wrenches - Don’t have Allen wrenches - Do have Adjustable wrenches - Do have Torque wrenches - Have a 1/2 and a 3/8 Sockets - Have mostly everything until 24mm and SAE to Shallow sockets - Have the ones I needed on my car Ratchets - I have 1/2, 3/8 and 1/4 Breaker bar, which you didn’t mention - I have Repair manual - I have OBD2 Reader - I have Safety galsses - I have, recently purchased Cutoff wheels - You mean an angle grinder? I have I really don’t see why you are all flaming about my tools. I NEED storage. And instead of spending 400$ on a box, and another I don’t know what money on some cupboards I figured I would get in AIO box, and the Milwaukee 60 inch meets my needs perfectly. I don’t just store my tools in that. ---
**Author:** ![TheMidnightNarwhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/themidnightnarwhal/32/5375_2.png) [@TheMidnightNarwhal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheMidnightNarwhal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/45 "2017-01-19T01:17:41Z")
… what? ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/46 "2017-01-19T01:28:51Z")
Hmmm, adjustable wrenches? Yeah I have them but when using I always think back to 40 years ago where I worked for a while. The plant manager would not allow any of the mechanics to have any adjustable wrenches in their tool boxes. He insisted they use wrenches instead or out the door buddy. I liked the guy. I was not a mechanic but most of them didn’t have any problem with that rule. ---
**Author:** ![TheMidnightNarwhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/themidnightnarwhal/32/5375_2.png) [@TheMidnightNarwhal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheMidnightNarwhal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/47 "2017-01-19T01:41:00Z")
I must say I never ever used mine, tried it on my filter cap was to small. And now that I have wrenches I don’t see how I will be using an adjustable wrench, but it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/48 "2017-01-19T01:43:58Z")
I really don’t see how you can work on a vehicle without a set of wrenches. So many places a socket just won’t fit. ---
**Author:** ![TheMidnightNarwhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/themidnightnarwhal/32/5375_2.png) [@TheMidnightNarwhal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheMidnightNarwhal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/49 "2017-01-19T01:45:41Z")
Like I said, I never encountered the issue. Everything small in my car is mostly Torx. I guess I haven’t had the chance to do something very big on it. But now I have a set, so if I require them, I’ll have them. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/50 "2017-01-19T02:07:37Z")
Start with a basic set of combination wrenches, 8 mm though 19 mm. On rare occasion you may need something larger, you can borrow or buy the wrench needed. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/51 "2017-01-19T03:07:54Z")
Just go buy your box. You’re not even responding to your original question anymore. Based on the list you just provided of what you already have, your original question doesn’t even make any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/52 "2017-01-19T03:25:05Z")
You are doing good kid, have fun and when you need a tool buy it. I have deep sockets, I bought when I needed them along with flare wrenches, tube cutters, faucet seat wrenches, basin wrenches, skinny wrenches for bycicle wheels, whitworth wrenches for the cycle, moen cartridge puller, vice grips, crescent wrenches, tilson wrenches, monkey wrenches, cold chisels, wood chisels, planers, grinders, variable speed drills, hammer drills, dent puller, strap wrench, oil filter wrench,4 way tire wrenches carbide tip drill bits, masonry drill bits, self tapping screws and even a crank for a model a, start with what you need and get more as you need them ( could go on but you get the point) ---
**Author:** ![TheMidnightNarwhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/themidnightnarwhal/32/5375_2.png) [@TheMidnightNarwhal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheMidnightNarwhal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/53 "2017-01-19T03:27:28Z")
??? What the hell is wrong with you.? I just explained you the tools I had and that’s what you reply. **You make no sense at all** ---
**Author:** ![TheMidnightNarwhal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/themidnightnarwhal/32/5375_2.png) [@TheMidnightNarwhal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheMidnightNarwhal)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/54 "2017-01-19T03:29:01Z")
And I ecen said I bought a set of wrench. **What more do you want from me???** ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/55 "2017-01-19T03:30:20Z")
Hope ya oon’t mind I called you kid!👨 ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/56 "2017-01-19T03:54:09Z")
You have a box. You have wrenches. Problem solved. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/57 "2017-01-19T16:23:49Z")
> [@ok4450](#): > > You have a box. You have wrenches. Problem solved. Amen. … ---
**Author:** ![always\_fixing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@always\_fixing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/always_fixing)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/58 "2017-01-19T16:33:26Z")
I could have used some extra large thin tappet style wrenches when replacing the inner tie rods on my Toyota tundra than using a pipe wrench and a smaller adjustable to do the job. Took several tries to get enough bite with the pipe wrench to loosen the existing ones. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/59 "2017-01-19T16:56:23Z")
Thin wrenches can be tough to find. I got mine at bike shops from my days as a cyclist. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/60 "2017-01-19T17:37:43Z")
> [@the\_same\_mountainbik](#): > > I cannot in my wildest imagination envision anyone who works on cars considering wrenches to be a waste. I consider it a waste that I do not have more wrenches! > [@Bing](#): > > The plant manager would not allow any of the mechanics to have any adjustable wrenches in their tool boxes. James May has an excellent series on Youtube called The Reassembler. He had a great quote in one of them - I think the one where he built an old lawn mower. “Adjustable spanners, are the tool of the charlatan.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eddo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/eddo/32/2594_2.png) [@eddo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eddo)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696/61 "2017-01-19T18:03:35Z")
> [@the\_same\_mountainbik](#): > > Thin wrenches can be tough to find. I got mine at bike shops from my days as a cyclist. That’s when I buy the cheapies and just file them down. I have a couple that I could not live without. the injector pumps on the old IDI 7.L Ford/International engines had to have a curved thin wrench to get at the pump mounting bolts. Impossible with a socket, and much easier than fighting with a regular wrench. I bought a curved wrench, then filed it down to fit. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696.md?page=2) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/wrench-question/98696.md?page=4)