Crows foot wrenches
- Thread starter kellymoe
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What have you used them for in the past? I have tool fever in a bad way right now. Help.
TheRoadie
Explorer
You mean tools need justification? I thought if somebody had to go to the trouble of inventing and selling them that was justification enough!
Maybe : You're trying to tighten a nut the last 10 degrees, but tight access means you can't swing a normal wrench handle, or get a socket on it. So you need the vernier action of a ratchet handle, plugged into the offset opening of a crow's foot.
Alternatively, you need to accurately torque a nut you can't put a socket on, such as a fluid coupling. Just have to be careful to compensate for the lever arm length affecting the torque value.
Lastly, there are plenty of times you need a PAIR of 18mm, or 22mm, or somesuch, wrenches. The crows foot set lets you carry a SECOND, or SPARE set of the same size wrenches without the weight penalty of an entire second set. That's the ticket! Weight reduction!
Of course for the ultimate weight reduction, you should just carry ONE adjustable crows foot and a ratchet driver:
Maybe : You're trying to tighten a nut the last 10 degrees, but tight access means you can't swing a normal wrench handle, or get a socket on it. So you need the vernier action of a ratchet handle, plugged into the offset opening of a crow's foot.
Alternatively, you need to accurately torque a nut you can't put a socket on, such as a fluid coupling. Just have to be careful to compensate for the lever arm length affecting the torque value.
Lastly, there are plenty of times you need a PAIR of 18mm, or 22mm, or somesuch, wrenches. The crows foot set lets you carry a SECOND, or SPARE set of the same size wrenches without the weight penalty of an entire second set. That's the ticket! Weight reduction!
Of course for the ultimate weight reduction, you should just carry ONE adjustable crows foot and a ratchet driver:
Ronnie4283
New member
I'm a Jeep technician, I use mine for the various fittings that are made of the softer metals such as brass, or at the end of an extention for nuts that you cant get straight on.
I Leak Oil
Expedition Leader
To paraphrase Field of Dreams....Buy them and the answers will come!
Jason T.
Jason T.
86cj
Explorer
Jason T. said:
That is perfect...........
As I was walking up the driveway thinking about cutting and welding a wrench or possibly cutting the side out of a socket and knowing it was a little late for fireworks in the driveway, the Answer came ...........The crows foot wrenches I bought a couple years ago and have not used..........