Tonyrodz's Tahoe Build Thread

[Rocket Man]

I highly recommend getting this style of pipe wrench for this and many other uses:

https://www.amazon.com/274001SM-11-...t=&hvlocphy=9025363&hvtargid=pla-454008424252


I have a few of them. They BITE.

Thanks for helping me buy another tool. Damn you.

 

[Sam Harris]

Thanks for helping me buy another tool. Damn you.

Hahah!! Same.

 

[iamdub]

Thanks for helping me buy another tool. Damn you.

Hahah!! Same.

I just read the first page of reviews on Amazon. I've never had a problem with it gripping a smooth pipe like one or two of the reviews said. In fact, that's what I bought them for- to turn the shaft in the center of a roll-up door to adjust the tension. A helper and I would be on each end of the door and we'd use the wrenches to put 1/4 turns on the shaft, taking turns. I've hung from them biting onto the door shaft. This was back in '01-'06, though. I hope they didn't switch to crappier materials and/or build quality since then.

 

[wjburken]

I just read the first page of reviews on Amazon. I've never had a problem with it gripping a smooth pipe like one or two of the reviews said. In fact, that's what I bought them for- to turn the shaft in the center of a roll-up door to adjust the tension. A helper and I would be on each end of the door and we'd use the wrenches to put 1/4 turns on the shaft, taking turns. I've hung from them biting onto the door shaft. This was back in '01-'06, though. I hope they didn't switch to crappier materials and/or build quality since then.

I have learned that some people just don’t know how to properly use a pipe wrench. I had an old timer show me that if set properly, they are almost like a ratchet. Bite on the pull, slip on release, bite on the next pull...

 

[Sparksalot]

I have learned that some people just don’t know how to properly use a pipe wrench. I had an old timer show me that if set properly, they are almost like a ratchet. Bite on the pull, slip on release, bite on the next pull...

That’s how I learned to use one. It was eye opening that such a sloppy tool could be so precise.

 

[Rocket Man]

I just read the first page of reviews on Amazon. I've never had a problem with it gripping a smooth pipe like one or two of the reviews said. In fact, that's what I bought them for- to turn the shaft in the center of a roll-up door to adjust the tension. A helper and I would be on each end of the door and we'd use the wrenches to put 1/4 turns on the shaft, taking turns. I've hung from them biting onto the door shaft. This was back in '01-'06, though. I hope they didn't switch to crappier materials and/or build quality since then.

We shall see.

 

[wjburken]

Hey @Tonyrodz, what's the status of that O2 sensor? Get medieval with it yet?

 

[pwtr02ss]

Hey @Tonyrodz, what's the status of that O2 sensor? Get medieval with it yet?

He's busy eating some chinese

 

[Sam Harris]

He's busy eating some chinese

Mmm.. duck tongue

 

[Dantheman1540]

Mmm.. duck tongue

I prefer Orange kitten or Kung pow meow.