Beg to differ... those 10mm are GOLD ! LOL

 

🤣 You beat me to it. Never can have too many 10s. 🤪

 

Couldn’t get the intake cam bolt off. The exhaust was pretty tough. But my daughter was able to break it loose while I held the wrench. She’s a couple inches taller and about 50lbs stouter than me.

after several failed attempts by 5 people (myself and my daughter and my neighbor who came by with her husband and his friend) I came up with this.



that 15/16 wrench is strapped to the front bumper

I threw my 1/2” breaker (snapped the 3/8” already) in a 4’ cheater and literally climbed on the bumper to put my whole body in it. 🤪 When it popped it sounded like a gun shot. 😂

when ur a little woman you get inventive. 😁

 

Get an air cooled VW and diss the 13mm. For some reason the Germans use 13 and everyone else uses 14 when "Imperial" is 1/2.

 

Kimberly- I am very fussy about my tools as well, I don't think it's just a woman thing. I have even painted them. My SAE ones are painted Orange, & metric are Blue, & of course have their own places in my tool boxes.
I don't stop the project tho, I just look harder for the missing one..

And I have triples of most all. I build Harley engines & trannies, so my tools are important. And especially the 10mm wrench or socket ... They like to hide. LOL

Example of how I paint my tools

Rare Earth magnetic drain plug "Test"

 

Rare Earth, great band !

 

Short lived, bout 2 years, I think '70 to '72.

 

How do you KNOW if the tensioner engages? I put it in and got nervous that it didn’t engage so I took it out and sure enough it wasn’t. So I put it in again. The chain is tight but It looked tight when I put it in before I ever tried to engage it.

 

The tensioner with the bump on the outside will engage , I’ve installed several, never had one not engage. The swing arm will be impossible to move.

 

It’s the newest from cloyes. Am I just not bumping it hard enough? The swing arm at the top still can be moved a very little bit.

I’m almost to the valve cover. Don’t want to take it out to check again and risk pieces falling into the chain cover I’ve already installed.