[AT] Out with the new, in with the old

[rlgoss at twc.com]

no, it's more complex than that. It has a weird shape -- not slotted, Phillips, cross, square, Allen, splined, or Torx, and it is located about an inch down a hole less than a 1/4 inch in diameter.  There was no way you could rotate it with pliers while the engine is running.  I shoved about three inches of vinyl tubing on a long Tee-handle Torx wrench and got that to work.  They make a wrench for it with a straight screwdriver handle, but I couldn't convince the local distributor to even let me borrow it.  I used to work in that shop, so I know the guys reasonably well.  The shop owner says the company is very strict on guarding the tools and would yank his franchise if he violated it.  But then again, when I worked there, we knew NOT to  talk to the owner about anything until noon on Wednesday.  He was too strung out on his medication until then.


Larry
---- jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote: 
> Larry, if you are talking about those reversed torx style screws, a new wire 
> end works pretty good. I grip it in a pair of needle nose vise grips and 
> shove the end that goes on the wire down over the screw. Depending on the 
> wire end, some of them begin to spread open and slip so you may not turn the 
> screw as much as you thought.
> 
> John Hall
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: rlgoss at twc.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 9:28 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Out with the new, in with the old
> The company policy that blows my mind the most is the one where they 
> purposely design an adjustment screw on a carburetor so that NO standard 
> tool works on it, and then refuses to sell the special tool to anyone who is 
> not licensed to do the repairs.  So I went home and built my own out of an 
> item from Harbor Freight and a chunk of vinyl tubing.
> 
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
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