WAS: Re: Replacing water pump NOW: Speedwrenches

[David Pertuz]

Speedwrenches are (pardon the Snoopism) the shiznit. I got mine at Sears,
but I don't recall what their name for them is. When I replaced my G20's
alternator the other day they probably only saved me a couple of minutes,
but those couple of minutes feel like 15 when you can zip-zip-zip a couple
of bolts off instead of taking the box-end off and relocating it every 1/8
turn. The Sears wrenches have very fine ratchets on them, too. They will
save lots of time in taking the pulley off of the WP and putting it back on
again. I wish the swivel-head ratchet had a finer mechanism in it, but
often the difference between 5 minutes to take a bolt out and 1 minute is
the ability to rotate the handle to clear something that's in the way. It's
the sort of thing that just makes working on the car more pelasant.

David

At 04:33 PM 6/11/05 -0400, you wrote:
>I toss out a second vote for the speed/gear/ratchet/
>whatever you wanna call them wrenches.  No toolkit
>is complete without a compliment in all the popular
>sizes.  The first ones I ever saw were 'Gearwrench',
>now everybody (and their mothers) are making them.