Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

yea good tools aren't cheap, i lashed out 5 hungy today on whats not even third of a tool kit yet....well worth getting quality tho.

My brother only buys Snap-on, his kit must be worth 20k by now, but they are good quality and will be replaced for free (without questions) if they ever break (try getting that service with sidchrome)

Im not a mechanic by trade so havent gone as overboard, but I have found Craftsman tools (from Sears in the USA) to be well priced and good quality.

My brother only buys Snap-on, his kit must be worth 20k by now, but they are good quality and will be replaced for free (without questions) if they ever break (try getting that service with sidchrome)

Im not a mechanic by trade so havent gone as overboard, but I have found Craftsman tools (from Sears in the USA) to be well priced and good quality.

funny you say that mate, cos im a fitter and turner and tools are my life. use them every day regardless of what it is...Ive tried most tools but I buy nothing but sidchrome and have had a couple of things break over the last few years only by force lol and they replaced without any hassle at all. Lifetime guarantee. KingChrome is also very good. Agreed Snap-on would be the best tho.

Edited by Ryanrb25

ruby did really well today at the track some guy did a spectacular flip lol well not really funny but yeah

pheobie wont be on here anymore cause i saw her last night at bp west tce and i told her that she is to stay off sau and a fair few other things, nene stopped me from punching her face in but yeah lol very shit night last night because of a person but thats a story for another day

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Or get a guy in his early fiftys to do it. A single good "oof" and about two cracks from his lower back is about the right tightness...
    • It's impossible to convey what it will feel like to get the right torque. But you can develop a feel for it. A 900mm breaker bar is.....f**king huge. I only use a normal ~400mm one. But with 900mm being very nearly a metre, and the right torque being in the order of 100Nm, then you're going to need a bit over 100N of force, which is about 10 kg. So if you practice using the bar pulling up, instead of pushing down, then it will be about the same effort as lifting a 10kg bucket of water. That's what the pressure against your fingers should feel like. Ish. If you use a more typical length breaker, then it's about twice that. So a good 20 litre bucket, or a little bit more.
    • Also, if anyone has a torque wrench around Williams Landing area and can lend it to me for like 5 mins - I got 4 bottles of Furphy left and I’ll throw that in with a Happy meal 😂
    • So today I decided to bleed my brake fluid, which meant to the wheels came off the car at my garage for the first time. I only had a 90cm breaker bar with me and I noticed that some 1 or 2 lug nuts were a bit hard to get loose (from when the shop did the coilovers) Now.... when it came to putting them back on, I didn't want to put all my weight and overtighten them. So I hand tightened as much as possible and then put normal pressure on the edge of the breaker bar and tightened it until I couldn't turn it anymore without putting in an effort. Do you think that is tight enough? Or is that still too tight?  They are tighter than finger tight. Last thing I want is to have them strip or warp sh*t. But hard times mean I can't just go down to Supercheap and get a torque wrench 🥺
    • Dunno what to tell you, when I look at it on Consult I can see this warmup timing map kicking in around 40C coolant temp and it sticks around for a while:  At part throttle on the normal base timing map it peaks around ~43 degrees of timing or something like that, this warmup timing map drops it to like 12-15 degrees. 
×
×
  • Create New...