Tool kit

[bemax]

I love these here
When I installed the double battery system in the Defender (T-Max by the way) I couldn’t get the screw nuts with the ratchet as there was no room at all. Those open-end wrenches with an integrated ratchet from Wera have been the solution.
There are cheaper ones but hardly better as far as I know

 

[DCPU]

King Dick - British tool company, decent sockets, drivers etc

All my Whitworth spanners are from them. Bought oh so many years ago from an old fashioned ironmongers.

 

[DCPU]

Halfords advanced. Lifetime warranty and haven’t broke one yet

Bought a 40 piece 1/2 inch combination set of sockets some 40 years ago ~ still going strong in original plastic casing (although catch has broken!).

 

[CountyV8]

I love these here
When I installed the double battery system in the Defender (T-Max by the way) I couldn’t get the screw nuts with the ratchet as there was no room at all. Those open-end wrenches with an integrated ratchet from Wera have been the solution.
There are cheaper ones but hardly better as far as I know
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I used brass butterfly nuts from the LR parts catalogue you don't need spanners fingers will do.Have Wera for tight things.

 

[DCPU]

I used brass butterfly nuts from the LR parts catalogue

Isn't that just an excuse to buy another bespoke tool:

 

[Tazzieman]

I've still got around 75% of the toolkit I bought for my first car as a student in 1980. I've hit them with hammers and used vice grips on the sockets yet somehow they still give yeoman service.
The 25% missing has been lent or lost - not broken.
In recent years I've sought out miscellaneous mechanic's tools from industrial antique shops and the like.
As I found with blacksmith's tools , these vintage items get snapped up for the mantlepieces in domestic warehouse conversions.
Which is a waste of fit for purpose.

 

[emax]

I'm not too worried about them breaking. But the fits are an issue. With wrenches and nuts, precision seems to be more difficult to achieve than durability - except with some ratchets.

 

[emax]

I love these here
When I installed the double battery system in the Defender (T-Max by the way) I couldn’t get the screw nuts with the ratchet as there was no room at all. Those open-end wrenches with an integrated ratchet from Wera have been the solution.
There are cheaper ones but hardly better as far as I know
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Very good choice!

Those open-end wrenches with an integrated ratchet from Wera have been the solution.

I assume the open ends are not ratches? I'd otherwise have to think again about my buy two years ago (which however is a pleasure to work with):

 

[Tu Sugars]

The one Vera showed was in a prototype vehicle and may have nothing to do with the real one, which I haven't seen anything on.
I assumed most buyers would already have, or will put together, their own tool kit.

Hello guys ,

Anyone have proper pictures of the toolkit ? Could not see much on christian and Vera's video . I would gladly pay for a stahlwille proper toolkit made just for the grenadier . my nissan patrol came with a complete tool kit , included all the tools needed for maintenance tasks (not just a lug nut socket )

Thoughts ?

I believe in not over-tooling a vehicle; initially, being reliant on build quality. We are buying a new unit. To my LC 200, I added a scissor lift ... then I never used it! It is still sealed in its box!
The LC diesel fuel filter, when I tried to change that - the second battery meant I could not get my hand in any way ... taking everything means a trailer! I think we will be surprised by how brilliant our vehicles will be. The Grenadier does have a lovely red bottle jack.

 

[PBD]

Bought my 1/2 & 1/4 full socket sets at a “Del Boy” type auction in 1971. I still have them, though they were cheap and nasty and over the years I have had to replace all the ratchets then the sockets too as they failed, just like Trigger’s road sweeping brooms!

 

[Tazzieman]

The Grenadier does have a lovely red bottle jack.

It should come with a jack pad. For when it's soft and muddy or sandy.
Mostly I carry tools for other people

 

[Logsplitter]

I believe in not over-tooling a vehicle; initially, being reliant on build quality. We are buying a new unit. To my LC 200, I added a scissor lift ... then I never used it! It is still sealed in its box!
The LC diesel fuel filter, when I tried to change that - the second battery meant I could not get my hand in any way ... taking everything means a trailer! I think we will be surprised by how brilliant our vehicles will be. The Grenadier does have a lovely red bottle jack.

Agreed. I think they will be brilliant, well engineered and reliable vehicles. But I would always take a tool kit on my travels. I was in the Boy Scouts “ Be Prepared”. I think it will be especially important to carry any tools that are specific to Grenadiers. Maybe over sized spanner’s for instance, for when getting a service and check over in some back street garage in the middle of no-where. Overseen myself of course.

 

[Tazzieman]

One of my favourite toolkits is the one from the Mercedes W198 gullwing
Who doesn't need a copper hammer and prestressing wedges with chain (whatever that does)
I will add , I don't own a $$$$ W198 set, but I do have a few of the quality tools for my W108s.

 

[DCPU]

Who doesn't need a copper hammer

A well used knock off hammer is a thing of beauty.

 

[Davman]

Bought my 1/2 & 1/4 full socket sets at a “Del Boy” type auction in 1971. I still have them, though they were cheap and nasty and over the years I have had to replace all the ratchets then the sockets too as they failed, just like Trigger’s road sweeping brooms!

Luvly Jubbly

 

[ECrider]

Luvly Jubbly

alright dave

 

[ChasingOurTrunks]

Very good choice!



I assume the open ends are not ratches? I'd otherwise have to think again about my buy two years ago (which however is a pleasure to work with):

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I like these better than the ones that are ratcheted at both ends, at least for an emergency kit. I've had the ratchet mechanism give out on some of mine, and if there's a ratchet at both ends it might mean no wrench in that size.

 

[Krabby]

I like these better than the ones that are ratcheted at both ends, at least for an emergency kit. I've had the ratchet mechanism give out on some of mine, and if there's a ratchet at both ends it might mean no wrench in that size.

Agreed - ratchet on one end, traditional "open" at the other.

As an aside, Craftsman (a US nameplate sold by Sears for decades and now part of the Stanley group I think) made these awesome "cross force" wrenches that had a twisted flat, so that when you had to push hard, the edge of the wrench wasn't digging into your palm.

 

[DCPU]

Who owns what (data from 2017) is sometimes enlightening:

And how much they earn:

 

[bemax]

Very good choice!



I assume the open ends are not ratches? I'd otherwise have to think again about my buy two years ago (which however is a pleasure to work with):

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Of course the open end is not a ratchet.