IMHO- One of the best tools to have in Your VW toolbox is- small pointed nose "Vise Grips" . these can be used to clamp off a brake hose when You have a leaking brake cylinder etc, or if You have an engine fire fed from fuel from the fuel tank, use these little beauties to clamp off the fuel line under the fuel tank..
stops the fire and hopefully will save Your VW. I have used them on brake hoses over the years and they work great, just put a cable tie around them so they don't fall off... naturally not on My cars...
Worth their weight in gold, or for Dave, in Crownies.... Lee 😀
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
The one between my legs :P😀
(had to be said)
the BFH.
Fixes so many things ... automotive or otherwise.
Mirror & torch to check the kombi's battery fluid level.
me
a bong 😀 and join the racv
LMAO!! 😉
My favourite tool in my kombi is my big MoFo jumper leads, for jump starting all those silly pr1cks who drive Falcadores and don't like doing maintenance!! 😀
Kruizin Kol
tools? who uses them when takin someone out? just keep a nice cute toy or two in there and chicks seem to dig it, works every time. first they love the car, then once they are inside they love the toys. i've got 2 matchbox toy cars, 1 a splitty. and a soft tugboat a freind bought me. she thought it was cool coz it vibrates when you pull a string. why do you think i drive a square???? komis are bonuses too😀
can't go past the trusty wheel brace I reckon.
Wes -
www.offroadvw.net - 200HP Quad Cam V6 in a VW Baja - with climate control...
🙂
www.taylorcycles.com.au - My DH MTB racing brothers shop.
One dehydrated VW mechanic.......just add water.......😀😀😀
Or is that just me???
:o
65 Meyers Manx
68 Country Buggy (KO 367)
68 Country Buggy (KO 669)
68 Country Buggy (KO 789)
68 Country Buggy (KO 815)
68 Baja Bug
76 Baja Kombi Twincab
The one you dont have. Thats the one you'll need.
I recently worked out you should take everything that you could possibly need for a complete rebuild by camp light.
4lb hammer and chisel works well for getting clutches and flywheels off.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
Ooh theres an echo in here 😀
Mobile phone to ring Kol / Dean or dial the forum with your laptop
" Captain Picard, why are there no Indians on the Enterprise ? Don't you need IT Support ? "
I like the idea of One dehydrated VW mechanic.......just add water
I thinks thats the best
Marc
If you can't laugh at yourself you can't laugh at anyone else! Because life is to short not to LAUGH
6 inches of speaker wire!, long story, you had to be there.😀
FAHRVERGNUGEN;
Description of a pleasurable sensation,
Experienced when a car and it's driver are in mutual harmony, A unique driving experience, Pleasure, Satisfaction,
A feeling experienced by Volkswagen Drivers.
keys now you cant go anywhere without keys can you!!
stuipid beetle breaks everytime i drive it.....
yes you can. Had a wiring meltdown near goulburn on way to last years day of the vw. Broke the plug off the ignition with a screw driver and hotwired it for a week. As well as the lights.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
dont need a key to get a VW running. bit of wire and an aligator clip is the universal key to transport.
I reckon the MVP of tools would have to be the swiss army knife. Just ask McGyver.
Blown clutch ??? no wukkers got me swiss army knife mate!
dropped valve ??? too easy with the swiss army knife! 😉
Sorry,
I forgot about the swiss army knife...
and the fire extinguisher... and the pliers,
& sockets, Multimeter, screwdrivers and VW 19/21mm special tool for taking the fan belt off and changing the wheel bolts.
I NEVER have carried a wheel brace.. I don't like them.. there are always 3 sizes that don't fit Your wheel nut or bolt....
😀
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
I use the 10 and 13mm spanners quite a bit. Also a flat blade screwdriver can provide some good improvisations!😉
A wheel brace can be used for wheels, to settle arguements when someone cuts you off, to break the window and crawl out when you roll the car...
When your wheel nuts start to rattle loose when offroading, it's good to have a wheel brace. I have had the wheel nuts start to loosen themselves a few times.
Wes -
www.offroadvw.net - 200HP Quad Cam V6 in a VW Baja - with climate control...
🙂
www.taylorcycles.com.au - My DH MTB racing brothers shop.
have to say the keys to my ever reliable hilux....
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx AustraliaSomeone big and strong so they can push
a spare battery.
used to be a spare generator and battery, but now its just a spare battery.😉
and a flat-head screwdriver.
in the beginning, the universe was created.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
The wheelbrace i bent trying to get a wheel nut off my brother's baja. it's still good though, just wonky...😀
THe MC Bat Commander's motto: "Never do now, what you could do for 24 hours straight, all night, the night before."
A box of matches
so u can fix it where it stops:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:party
[Edited on 6-9-2003 by fridolin]
Redbus - you'll be right now you won a jerry can in the raffle last week right 😀
My most useful tool? RACV membership 🙂
Part of Melbourne's Unreal Aircooled VW Community
I would have to say the fuel can. Fleur never fills up until she has put the spare fuel in- After running out. 😀
Hmm, fuel gauge🙂
Is that a tool? Don't have one😉
Peer down into the tank and go, 'YES' another 5 klm left, that's home without stopping and maybe to the servo next morning if I get up early enough to spare the time to fill up:thumb
p.s. only run out of petrol once when I was told to have the tank pretty, if not completely, empty😉
[Edited on 6-9-2003 by jenz58]
Gerber muli tool is the best...I have also found artey claps good for hose. small little flat head driver (carbi, points...) and most recently a spare cluch cable....Oh and cable ties...oh and the rooted cluch cable tied in a loop to help you move the lever to get the new cable in...on sydney rd at 10:00pm...perhaps we should have a thread for the most jerry rigged VW
A torch,if you do night shift.🙁
