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Originally posted by .38supersig:
A dwell meter or a choke angle gauge?

Try finding one of those now.

I always have an extra 7mm instead. You can't take a dash apart without one.

I’ll one up you. I have a standard Motor Products/Blue Streak flexible dwells adjuster tool (blue handle) for Delco V8 distributors, probably bought that around 1971 or 72.

The one I need....

Followed by 10mm, then the 13mm....

Every. Freaking. Time. I. Need. A. Damn. 13mm. Nowhere. To. Be. Found!


ARman

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posted by shovelhead: I have a standard Motor Products/Blue Streak flexible dwells adjuster tool (blue handle) for Delco V8 distributors …

Yes, I have one as well, along with a number of other obsolete tools. Examples: mixture adjuster for Rochester Varajet, timing belt tension adjuster for Chrysler 2.2/2.5, timing light (I actually did have a need for it earlier this year, but mostly gathers dust), and so on. A co-worker has a '65 Impala, but with a 6-cylinder, so the dwell adjuster isn't much use there.

Timing lights and spark plug feeler gauges. When was the last time you used them?

Used to be all the time.

Harbor Freight makes a 10mm kit. It has 6 or 8 10mm sockets. I laugh everytime I see it.

I had an occasional need for feeler gauges to adjust valves, mostly Honda.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
spark plug feeler gauges. When was the last time you used them?

A few months ago, when I replaced the spark plug on my lawnmower.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
spark plug feeler gauges. When was the last time you used them?

A few months ago, when I replaced the spark plug on my lawnmower.

Dang. I can honestly say that I haven't checked/adjusted the gap on a spark plug in at least 30 years, and I own two classic vehicles (three is you count my '70 Honda 90).

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Timing lights and spark plug feeler gauges. When was the last time you used them?

Used to be all the time.

You got that right. I have a drawer in my chest out in the garage that has a high performance timing light, compression tester and feeler gauges. I don't even remember the last time I opened it. I have moved the feeler gauge as I do use that from time to time.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Timing lights and spark plug feeler gauges. When was the last time you used them?

Tuesday.

The ones your wife loans out while you are at work.[The starter wife]

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by BOATTRASH1:

Belden 10 mm master set

"Belden?" Or Brazen?

Correct tail. Brazen. Dohhhh

Bought a timing light to use on my wife’s 1990 (I think) Toyota Cressida back around the 2000s (I was in med school). That was a great car and taught me a lot (oil vs transmission drain pan plug is probably my worst automotive repair mistake ever, thankfully quickly picked up upon finding the oil dipstick just slightly over full). Skip ahead 20+ years and a buddy buys a 1986 Ford F150 like his grandfather’s, that shortly thereafter catches on fire from a carburetor backfire. With some research, new carb, and some wiring, we got her running again, and better than before! Set the timing on the distributor with that old light I have carried to 4 houses since I bought and last used it…

Did that not make a racket when driving?

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Originally posted by shovelhead:

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
A dwell meter or a choke angle gauge?

I’ll one up you. I have a standard Motor Products/Blue Streak flexible dwells adjuster tool (blue handle) for Delco V8 distributors, probably bought that around 1971 or 72.

Cool, Bonus points if you have one of these:

I always thought it was folklore until it happened to me this year. Lost a 3/8" drive 10mm in a friends car and I would have had to remove the front clip to get it back. No way.

I went to harbor freight and got the set listed below.

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Harbor Freight makes a 10mm set for this very reason. 1/4, 3/8, deep and shallow. I have one in my box and it comes in handy!

I always subscribed to the theory that the most commonly lost tool is the one you need right now

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Originally posted by Redhookbklyn:
Did that not make a racket when driving?

Nope. As anyone who owns a classic car attest, you're always chasing down various squeaks and rattles, but that wasn't one of them.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:
I guess I need new glasses. I don't see anything that looks like a socket in the picture.

Deep well, laying on its side, just under the silver vacuum controller/switch or whatever that is.

Next to the wire connector marked "blue" without anything that looks like a blue wire on it, so assuming that was the color on the radio!

Clear as day now!
Thanks