A Few Of My Specialty & Homemade Tools That You've Asked About

Snap-on:
Snap-on DHP1 Dodge Hub Removal Tool , Snap-on FRXM19 Flare Nut Socket 19mm , Snap-on LIL 22800 Wheel Stud Installer
Amazon:
Metal Magery Sheet Metal Skin Wedge Pry Bar Tool 3 Pack , Lequduo Relay Tester/Relay Byoass Master Kit , IPA Tools Diamond-Grip Terminal Cleaners (8040)
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[@willemstreutgers1154]

Kenny you are a humble mechanic. Newbies need you so much to learn about old school and simple out of the box working.

[@billmalec]

Thanks for starting my day with a heartfelt tear. Very nice to help that kid out.

[@scottmartin1845]

This man has good solid advise for someone that turns wrenches for a living. His best advice, start with fresh eyes on what you’re fixing and listen to the back story with some discernment.

[@logancarter2134]

Another great episode of very useful content!!! Thanks!

[@onearizona1]

Dear Ken; Your videos have been beyond most helpful. Being as I have never had the pleasure of working on a GM rear end before. Thank You ; Frank

[@georges6432]

DIY =mechanic= here... I enjoy watching your videos and definitely am learning a lot, thanks!

[@crystallakegarage]

I built a carrier bearing adjuster tool out of a Chrysler torsion bar ( same hex as the adjuster ), welded a 5/8" 1/2" drive socket to one end

[@rakentrail]

Necessity has created countless tools! Here's one I use a lot; when tracing out a short in a circuit replace the fuse with a bulb. It acts as a current limiter. You can probe the circuit without frying the wires.

[@hfc-u7l]

thats even better. im guessing it lights up when a fuse would blow instead? I was going to buy those circuit breaker fuses that funk fpv showed on his tool reviews of 2023.

[@donmunro144]

After wrenching for close to 50 years, I have tons of tools that are homemade. Many of which work as well or better than store bought. I was taught that anyone can do it with the right tools.

[@jims2507]

Kenny, I love your videos. I've been watching for a year or 2, just subscribed!

[@johnnyszot]

Kenny thanks so much I'm sure my question about the fuel line socket wasn't the only one. Thank you for responding to your viewers stay safe and keep wrenching

[@craigdave3266]

I love the diamond cleaner I'm going to make some with some old finger nail files

[@rickwidlund3512]

Fantastic information video, Thank you.🔧

[@davidschwartz5127]

God Bless You

[@rayp.454]

4140 is a chrome moly alloy, used for it's high strength, toughness and impact resistance. Unusual that they would name the tool that, but I have the tool and you are correct it is the cats a**. Thanks for the video Kenny.

[@cpcoark]

I like this new series on tools

[@paulputnam2305]

“Sweeeeeeeet” Thank You

[@joelmollenkopf3767]

Excellent

[@ronaldbrosius7488]

Kenny i found it way easier to make a crow foot wrench, just cut open end off, and weld a nut where the square hole would normally be. Works great!

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Thank s!!!

[@jaymorris3468]

Brilliant stuff

[@knoester7714]

Thanks Kenny

[@berty1422]

Indeed Kenny, I have one of the 4140 panel tools and it is indispensable. You can get a lot done with plastic trim panel tools, but sometimes you need some direct leverage and it does it by spreading the load and minimising panel damage. I got mine from Ebay and it was around £15. I call these Anti-Grief tools, they do save a lot of hassle, grief, and choice words.

[@jeffryblackmon4846]

Very nice collection. I've made a few as well, not nearly as many. Thanks for the video!

[@chipfrigon8934]

Love your content--thanks! I came to see some interesting/useful odd tools, but am now obsessing on the MG in the background of your opening shot......

[@warrenfloyd1484]

Cool stuff, I've made many pullers, and other things, great video!!! Thanks Kenny 😎👍

[@ronreed610]

I always learn something watching these!

[@dannydobbs669]

I just found your channel a few weeks back and I really appreciate and enjoy it very much I’m a old school mechanic also and got a lot of homemade tools keep up the awesome videos much respect and GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!!

[@WrenchingWithKenny]

Thank you for watching !! I appreciate you!!

[@glennfields8121]

Kenny, you are such a selfless individual with a desire to share or even 'pass on' knowledge. Besides daily wrenching you could actually be a well known technical trade school instructor. I enjoyed the video and paused it many times to search Amazon for similar or even the same tools for consideration. The cart is full.

[@greggc8088]

Sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do when waiting on the tool truck isn't an option. And then there's the new jobs at the dealer where techs make their own stuff and 6 months to a year later see it finally arrive on the tool truck.

[@garya9875]

That was a cool video Kenny thanks for that showed us another side of you. 👍👍

[@alanearnest6040]

I use a torsion bar and the Chrysler case bearing adjustment

[@sonnyblazer5504]

Glad to have found your channel and thanks for the CONTENT you provide!

[@maddydog]

I use to work at a trailer manufacturer company, we also installed hitches on cars and trucks, I got tired of having hot metal shavings hit me in the face when drilling holes into the frame so I welded up a jig that held the pneumatic drill onto a hydraulic floor Jack and let the Jack do all the work, my boss was so impressed he asked me to make more for all the other welders and installers, he payed me to do it , he said I should patented it, I never did i retired some years back and they’re still using those jigs there today, I also seen a similar product online which is now patented, missed out darn it!! 😂

[@mongomongo17]

the mopar axle tool is cool

[@gregiles908]

I get the impression that 4140 on those trim panel tools is the Grade of steel, not a part number. You can never own too many tools. I have bought sets of tools just for a few spanners and given the rest of the spanners to teenagers, I have bought whole sets of sockets and had friends need to borrow a size that I have never used. I also butcher cheap spanners/screw drivers to make a specialty tool, it's a common sense practice. Try getting the coolant sensor out of my Australian Ford Falcon, which faces out of the block directly towards the firewall, without my cut down 19mm offset ring spanner and you'll wish you could use it too. Great video.

[@georgecurtis6463]

Yea, I have had to make my own tools many times. Even dealer tools didnt get the job done well. Or i just figured a better way to get a job done and made a tool to do so.

[@hfc-u7l]

BRO TIP always pick up cheap or trash quality tools and sockets and hoard them in a box. with a grinder (any type) and a blow torch and hammer, you can make so many tools from trash. EVEN MORE WITH A LATHE, WELDER, AND MILL MACHINE. needle nose pliers + narrowed with a bench grinder= orifice tube install/removal tool crappy screwdrivers +bending= hd/rad hose picks/prybars/screwdriver bit/ or odd angle screwdriver? garbage sockets + big fackin hammer =ball joint press cheap wrenches and sockets + grinder= low profile tools or that treat especial flare nut socket (i am gonna go to walmart and get some viper muff sockets to make these😁)

[@WrenchingWithKenny]

Thanks for the tech tip! I appreciate your response. Keep wrenching!!!

[@donames6941]

Kenny to you a great big thumbs up you are a hell of a guy your fuel line socket i use same thing on ford diesel tractor injection pumps thank for sharing

[@motorcoachtech7615]

Kenny the injector line wrench, Snap-On calls them ‘Flank-Drive’. Some of my favourite tools are one that I made or modified. Keep the content coming. Rick

[@DavidWeinberg-cm9xd]

Nice cro-moly 4140 trim tool. Standard is 4130, but that is the next higher grade , meaning it's tensile strength is more, like 6,000 versus 7,000 aluminum? Rather have that than ss? Jdtco sells those trim tools with a rubber handle if anyone needs one?

[@peterbilt8799]

Those cubes that go into the relay socket are relay testers, I just bought a set from Amazon.

[@terryfields5915]

Great tools

[@jamesfitzgerald2361]

That stud installer tool works on most hubs .but on a later model ford Explorer the rear hub is to narrow and the tool sits at an angle. So I bought some washers and stacked them high enough for the tool to clear the part of the hub that interfered with the tool seating properly.

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

You're a good man!

[@christianw508]

Just to clarify, with the "corporate axles" tool you had, the adjustable collar is adjusted with the axle nut you welded on? The socket is just there to use the 3/8th drive.

[@mongomongo17]

i still have a bunch of custom screw drivers for carbs lol

[@allanbrogdon3078]

Taking a break from working on a 2000 Montero I just bought then found the harmonic balancer bolt was backed out. Bummer no telling what I will need for tools. Pulley ruined timing gear interface is important even though the timing belt was done I have found many things loose so in we go.

[@DependableAutoTruck]

IPA makes the relay bypass switches you were showing

[@mad_mechanic]

Nice stagecoach in the background

[@PaulCTownsend]

Thanks Kenny if someone steals your tool box those are the tools you will miss the most.

[@505fastlife6]

You need to try the lang stud installer set way better thean one you use.

[@maddog3080]

I just use a socket and an extension to push out the hubs

[@1234otrebla]

For a 2003 Taurus inner tie rod

[@jerrybigrig9475]

👍🔧👍

[@PRO4XKEV]

The 4140 we use at Boeing, we call it a steel wedge.

[@neilo.hislop950]

The elusive ( expensive ) "Factory" tools usually come from KENT -MOORE. Especially the Chrysler bits. Stealership ONLY.

[@toddfraisure1747]

Man am I glad I found Kenny's channel. I've spent countless hours looking fora channel that is as honest and easy to follow as this. I also watch Rainman Ray's channel and enjoy it also but. Kenny's isn't so big that it doesn't seem mostly for entertainment. I feel like he's actually teaching Auto Shop. No Bullshit and a bit of attitude like a damn good, knows his shit channel. If I could ask for advice right now it is to show me a simple repair for a wallowed out upper door hinge fix on my 91 GMC pickup without hopefully replacing the hinge itself. It seems like something he's had to repair before. I'm thinking JB Weld putty but would really appreciate his opinion because it doesn't seem to me that it would last. I tried a bushing kit but the hole is too oblong to work. Please help a poor disabled fool Kenny! Even if it's bad news.

[@stevea6722]

Weld washers in the bushing hole and on the side that doesn't interfere with the hinge working. Then resize/drill to fit new bushings.

[@toddfraisure1747]

@@stevea6722 I'll give that a shot. I just happened to get a little 110 volt buzz box and some 6011 &6013 3/32 rod.

[@davidparnell1893]

Is that an MG TD circa 1955 in the background?

[@genedunn9283]

Nice job Kenny! The only sad part was seeing the socket you made the BMW ball joint tool out of. “Craftsman” and “Taiwan” shouldn’t be on the same item. I know it’s the way things are now, but I still don’t like it!

[@Hutsonmoco]

Is that an MG T Series I see in the background?

[@bradmugleston3285]

Is that an MG in your background? Guessing 53 TD?

[@matthewanderson7766]

Were did you get the terminal files

[@juanrodriguez-ry6yt]

1.1/16 =27m.m. very common

[@knowbuddy6282]

Does the tool make the man? Or does the man make the tool?

[@srenlund-hansen6883]

shop tour ?

[@georgepaiva7496]

You’re a good soul kenney