Understood. You bring up my biggest concern about having multiple households. Much as I would love to have a summer place/second home in WI, I can’t imagine the difficulties that would exist over not having all my “stuff” in one place. Without a doubt I would need something that’s at the other place….
-D > On Dec 23, 2017, at 11:12 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Keeping all the special tools in one place is very nice when you are a stick > in the mud and stay in one place all the time. I've had cars scattered all > over, at various "line shacks," and thence need to work on them wherever > they are. So, the special tools are always someplace else from where they > are needed. > > Most recently, when I was working on the 240D, my "special socket" for > injector holders was in the trunk of the 300D, 1000 miles away. So, I could > not take out the nozzles. As it ended up, I didn't have to, so it was ok in > the end, but I ran around trying to buy a 27mm or 1 1/16" deep socket with > the flutes cut to the top. > > My "special socket" is just a crapsman deep socket I bought 40 yrs ago. > Aparrently nobody make deep sockets with the flutes cut all the way to the > top after snears drove Williams out of bidness. > > As I said, YMMV, but for me NOT having special tools made life easier. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
