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today I'm going to talk about two really good tools that can make car repair
much easier, now people are always asking me, how can you work on these modern cars,
there's no working room, you can't even get your hand in places, but there's
tools that can compensate for that, and this flux gearwrench is one of them, it's
got a regular open end wrench, but it's the other end that's important, it's flexible
and it's very thin, but it has a ratchet inside, this particular one is made by a
company called gearwrench, but there's lots of them out there, you can take your
pick, and here's how it helped me on this job, I had to change the alternator on
this Toyota echo and the bolt that holds on on the bottom is close to the frame
so that gives you two choices, you can take the motor mounts out, Jack the
engine up in the air, and then have room to get it with a regular socket, that's
pretty much a gigantic pain, I'd rather use one of these flex wrenches to get to
it easier, to get to the bottom bolt you reach down under here and use the wrench
and stick it on, since it's so thin it doesn't matter how close it is to the
firewall, you just put it at an angle and start pulling, then the ball comes out
nice and easy we don't have to deal with jack and engine up and down, thanks to
this nice little tool, now you notice I've got a whole set of them and if you
want the truth, I didn't buy any of them I got them sent to me free, but then of
course you might, say great Scotty gets free tools, what good does that do me
well I can actually do you a whole lot of good, because with over 83 million
YouTube views, people always send me tools and I try them out, as you can see
with my messy and totally filled up garage full of tools, where even the tool
drawers are overflowing, I get to check out all the tools, first the good ones I make
videos about, the bad ones they end up into recycling bin and are never heard
from again, and yes I admitted my garage I have tools and I've never even used,
people send me to them, but I never had a use for them, so I never had to you
them, and in a case of these gear wrenches, yeah I've got some of these that I'd
never used, so you can make more sense and buy only the ones that you need, so let's
say you work out on Japanese cars, well you'd want to get a 10 a 12 and a 14
millimeter, because those are the ones that they use, that are commonly hard to
get to bolts, you don't need to have a whole set like me, although the whole set
does look cooler, now the other cool tool I'm going to talk, about are these vampire
adjustable pliers, now the main problem with pliers are, especially these slip
ones, are they often slip, because the teeth get loose and they start slipping
on the bolts and you can rip your fingers apart, they do have some serrations here
but when you look at them head-on, they're just flat and they often slip and rip
your fingers, but if you check out these vampires, they look like little
piranhas, they have actual teeth in the front, so they grab and they don't slip
but my favorite uses are getting these stupid radiator clamps off, since they
have great bite, when you grab them and squeeze, they all come popping off, they
easily slide off, I can't tell you how many times when I use the old pliers
they slip and I'd rip my knuckles, I haven't tore my knuckles at all using those
I'm sticking by them, they have all kinds of uses, like if you have a
rounded out screw or a bolt, you can just grab it and it comes right off, you don't
have to worry about strip bolts, this will grab them really good, you can pull
them without them slipping, so continuing my effort to help you fix your car
easier, now you know about two really cool tools, that can help you do it, but I
have to admit a little self interest in this one, I'm a tool addict, I'm addicted
to tools, so if you have any interesting tools, why not send them to me, if I like
them I might even make a video about them and help everyone else out, because
really, tool addiction is a victimless crime
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