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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: SnoFalls on February 07, 2005, 12:32:21 PM
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(I expect the "he said tool, hehehehehe" comments)
I got some surprise looks when the magnet probe I have in my box was *necesssary* for a trail repair ... to me it was a no brainer, fits in the box with the screw drivers, and indespensible *when* a screw/nut/bolt drops into the mud/snow/rocks/engine!
I dunno about an inspection mirror? Can see the use, can also see it breaking?
Slide hammer perhaps? Others?
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pantyhose for belts! works 8)
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pantyhose for belts! works 8)
or tow strap! J/K ...
I like the other aspect too "honest honey, I need em to fix my rig" ... perfect way to get that first date to drop her pants!
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Actually I do carry a slide hammer to pull my rear axles incase one breaks.
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Actually I do carry a slide hammer to pull my rear axles incase one breaks.
me2 that's why I threw it out there :)
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Regardless of what vehicle I'm in, I *ALWAYS* carry my Sears/Craftsman Mini-Edging Spade shovel with me...  It has saved my ass on many an occasion, and it has been used at work, dig rain/tent trenches for camping, dig my car out of the snow in the ditch, and I always keep all 3 sides sharpened with a grinder so it cuts through the sod, tree roots, and anything else with the greatest of ease.
Maybe a good portable shovel doesn't seem like such an important tool to many of you people with a Warn Winch or something, but to me, it's a good little shovel is a VERY useful & important tool.
Pic removed so I can surf this from work without the techno-geek doesn't see it. ;)
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Fence pliers for going through, well you know.
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Duct Tape!!!!!!!
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Duct Tape!!!!!!!
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Hmm??? Is that weird to carry around ? Okay, in that case: I'm carrying a weird tool too ;D
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Duct Tape!!!!!!!
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Duct Tape, Super Glue, & Bubble Gum is what my wife carry's on her tractor trailer, and me the wierdest thing I carry is just a 'leatherman', soldier, flux and a mini torch from Mac Tools.
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About that mini-torch, how good do those work, and what do you use it on/for? I've been thinking about one of those, but don't know what I'd use it on... :-/
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Duct Tape!!!!!!!
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That is NOT duct tape! It is softtop repair material, and I do carry a roll.
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About that mini-torch, how good do those work, and what do you use it on/for?  I've been thinking about one of those, but don't know what I'd use it on...  :-/
I use it for everything from soldiering wires and heat shrinking wire wraps, to roadside temporary radiator repair, to lighting the campfire. they use a cigarette lighter inside them and a piezio transformer to magnify the flame temperature.
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dig rain/tent trenches for camping
PLEASE tell me you don't do this!
If you just pick your tent spot wisely, you don't have to cut scars on the land, that last for years.
JB Weld. I patched a hole in my bell housing with JB Weld and a red-bull can.
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Actually I do carry a slide hammer to pull my rear axles incase one breaks.
This is one the reasons to have a high lift jack. Besides lifting your rig, they work as a slide hammer.
Brian
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Oh yeah, I forgot to answer the question :-/ I carry air tools. I know it's not wierd, but you get a lot of looks when I pull out the impact gun to get a tire off on the trail ;)
Brian
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This is one the reasons to have a high lift jack. Besides lifting your rig, they work as a slide hammer.
Brian
Dood.
I never thought about that. They WOULD!
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PLEASE tell me you don't do this!
If you just pick your tent spot wisely, you don't have to cut scars on the land, that last for years.
I only dig trenches when camping & shooting on our own family's private land. I don't do it when on other people's land, or when I'm in a state or national park or something. It DOES make the land look bad if you don't know how to replace & repair the soil to its original condition.
Also, please don't tell me you're one of those ultra picky 'carry your feces out in a baggy rather than burying it' kind of campers. :o
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I only dig trenches when camping & shooting on our own family's private land.  I don't do it when on other people's land, or when I'm in a state or national park or something.  It DOES make the land look bad if you don't know how to replace & repair the soil to its original condition.
Also, please don't tell me you're one of those ultra picky 'carry your feces out in a baggy rather than burying it' kind of campers.  :o
Maybe if more people were the "'carry your feces out in a baggy rather than burying it' kind of campers." the con wouldnt be about to close.
AS for the weirdest tool? hmmm I guess it would be my creeper mat thingy. Think of the matts in elementry school. They sell them at autozone. Its kinda pansy but everyone always wants to use it. I mean who wants to lay in the mud?
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Dood.
I never thought about that. They WOULD!
I'd never thought of that either ... slide hammer might stay at home in the future!
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PLEASE tell me you don't do this!
If you just pick your tent spot wisely, you don't have to cut scars on the land, that last for years.
Scars, Scars!...It's DIRT man! Don't you make ruts when you wheel in it?
Anyway, I carry an extra starter and plan on an extra alternator and battery this summer too, but those aren't tools, so I'm just an AutoZone on wheels.
Oh, except for the biggest sledge you can cram in my Zuk 8)
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Also, please don't tell me you're one of those ultra picky 'carry your feces out in a baggy rather than burying it' kind of campers.  :o
Well, in SOME places, it's the right thing to do (like the 'Con, I guess). But most of the places I go, there's no problem with burying your poop - or smearing it (yeah, that's what they're pushing these days, if I recall correctly)...
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The real question- who has time to camp? :P I have a $300 tent I got on clearance at Target for $35 and have yet to use it :-[
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WHAT IS " THE 'CON" ? ???
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OK I thought of one crazier than the Duct tape. I like to bring along these big bulky things called Jeeps. They work realy well when you are traveling along a fairly easy trail. All you have to di is hook onto them and drag them along the trail making it more challanging to you ;D
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WHAT IS " THE 'CON" ? ???
The Rubicon Trail. It has had sections of it shut down due to human crap along the trail making it un sanitary. The crazy part is there are Dairy farms EVERY WHERE with 1000 of cows craping and peeing on the ground, in the streams etc.... but the eco freaks dont bitch about that :-/
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I like to bring along these big bulky things called Jeeps. They work realy well when you are traveling along a fairly easy trail. All you have to di is hook onto them and drag them along the trail making it more challanging to you ;D
that's good i have had to lend a hand to a few jeepers and they have had to help me a few times. i carry a first aid kit flares and a flare gun. maybe its from to many years of boating
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I have used a Jeep Grand Cherokee as a winch anchor! A friend patched a hole in the Oil Pan of his Volkswagen Bus, with a beer can, and RTV (Silicone Rubber). He never got around to getting a new oil pan. I carry an assortment of nylon cable-ties - they're handy for holding stuff together. I have heard of people carrying unlubricated condoms in their first aid kits, for waterproofing finger bandages. I also carry saline solution and an empty contact-lens case, for those who wear contacts.
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The Rubicon Trail. It has had sections of it shut down due to human crap along the trail making it un sanitary. The crazy part is there are Dairy farms EVERY WHERE with 1000 of cows craping and peeing on the ground, in the streams etc.... but the eco freaks dont bitch about that :-/
True, but most Dairy Farms aren't built on top of Slickrock next to a popular trail. ;D
The main barns at Dairy Farms are usually scraped into lagoons where it is eventually pumped out for fertilizer. They are doing some fun things with using the methane from the manure to run co-gen plants though.
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The real question- who has time to camp? :P I have a $300 tent I got on clearance at Target for $35 and have yet to use it :-[
I just sleep in the drivers seat.... Thats actually not a joke. ;)As for tools, most people find it odd what I dont carry. All my tools are 10,12,14,and 17mm. Anytime I replace something I make sure its one of those sizes. Im all about the less is more plan. ;)
Mike
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dont do tents anymore, have one of these lol
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gets a bit tippy on the trail thou lol
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Have any more pictures of the smaller trailer?
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gets a bit tippy on the trail thou lol
;D You need a lift and 33's on it ;D
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dont do tents anymore, have one of these lol
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gets a bit tippy on the trail thou lol
hows that thing tow that. I want to get a single place trailer so i can tow my sled.
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Wierd huh, well I got a hack saw and
a hatchet under the seat, I don't think
of those as being wierd tho, Eric used
my hack saw on the Golden Spike trail
:)
Wild
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Was he trying to saw off the "golden spike"? ;D ;D
Cwkick
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All my tools are 10,12,14,and 17mm.
Isn't the lug wrench a 19mm?
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I don't go out without my metric adjustable wrench....the standard ones just don't cut it on the zukes.
i lost my roll of duct tape once....I knew that I had bought a new roll and put it in a safe place. About a month later the zuke was almost on it's side and all of a sudden the roll hit me in the head....I had stuck it on the roof of the zuke and when I was looking for it I never thought of looking up.
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A metric adjustable wrench! Excellent... I'm gettin' one of those. hehe.
I carry a little tub of kitty litter... If I leak something on the trail I can soak it up before it saturates the ground then just shovel it in with my garbage to take home!
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A few years back I was working at a Fastening house and someone called from a company and was looking for a metric adjustable...he said that he had been trying to find one for two weeks and that he had just started working there so he wanted to do a good job. They were sending him on a wild goose chase.
I went into the computor system and changed the description of the adjustable wrench and added metric, he was so happy.
I've actually seen some since this....they had metric markings so they do exist.
I bring lots off tools because most of the time there is a tool in the bunch that didn't bring any tools and normlaly the tools right isn't up to getting out and playing on the trail...I just got to make sure the tool brings back the tools....
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A crescent hammer. It's an 8" crescent wrench with a 3/4" nut and the head of a bolt welded over where the adjuster sticks out. I never leave home without it.
-JOK
p.s.- What's a zombie thread?
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a zombie thread is an old thread like this one from 05 its a good one though :laugh:
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SDU-5/E SDU Strobe with a replacement end cap (to use Lithium CR-123 camera batteries), and a couple of sets of spare batteries.
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I haven't started building my "kit" for my tracker just yet, but in my fullsize truck I carry, at all times:
folding shovel (proven to be the most useful so far)
axe
knife
tow strap
rope
PPE: coveralls, eye protection, gloves
basic hand tools (screwdrivers, wrenches, sockets, hammer, etc.)
portable air compressor
wd-40, other useful chemicals (can't remember off the top of my head)
duct tape, electrical tape
electrical splice connectors
cheater bar in the driver's door (or beater stick)
mag-lite
fire extinguisher
road flares
flagging tape
zip ties
SPARE BELTS AND HOSES
I am thinking about downsizing this to a more portable toolbox that can be moved from vehicle-to-vehicle and carry it in the tracker on the trail and keep it in the truck at all other times
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oldie, but a goodie ;)
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;) Butane micro torch ( little kind that fits in your pocket.) I used it once to silver solder a brass ferrel onto the end of a broken throttle cable on my buddies Harley. We were on our way to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It kept him going for the rest of the trip. Oh, and a Barretta 9mm. Ya never know.
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p.s.- What's a zombie thread?
a thread that wont die
this ones ok though... its spared from the bullet to the head