Tools bought and only used once

This for pulling the injector sleeves out of the head on an Isuzu 4JX1 engine, really nicely made and wasn't a lot of money


Had it for over a year and I haven't actually used it yet but I will need to a some point!!

Years ago when I was a pipefitter one of my workmates had loads of tools he only used once. He would only ever buy the cheapest tools that money could buy from shops like poundland and market stalls. They would often break the first time he used them, then he would go back to poundland or whatever and buy another one. I remember one time pointing out to him that he had broken more £1.99 market stall pipe cutters than it had cost me to buy my single Ridgid pipe cutter which I'd used for years. So after much complaining about the price of one Ridgid pipe cutter he invested in one. From the moment he bought it he was moaning about the price. To be fair to him it probably cost him more than the rest of his tool kit put together. Anyhoo, incredibly despite costing him so much money he only used that one once too. He was 10ft or so up a ladder cutting a piece of copper tube, and as it cut through it the cutters slipped out of his hand... Straight down an open pipe that lead to the drain. The best bit was the pipe was reduced to only 2" diameter so the cutters only just fit with millimeters to spare, but they never even touched the sides! Needless to say that as we were four floors up he never saw them again. I'm just glad that I was there to see it happen, I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard. That was probably the best part of twenty years ago and my guess is that he's probably still moaning about it now! Obviously he went straight back to buying cheap nasty tools and replacing them pretty much on a weekly basis.

Yes they are, I get them from PFJones, they're £90 each and the software to code them is free. The coding is unique to the performance of the injector so it tells the ecu the precise amount of fuel to inject.

Another pointless ford change. What is their issue with taking a product, an injector and putting a computer in it? Fuel is normally calculated by the ECU and how long injector is open.

Ford. The same company that took a perfectly useable and reliable component, the battery terminal, and change it for one that tries to use a cam, fails miserably & never tightens.


Their woeful intelligent charging system on mk2 focus. Silver oxide battery only. Battery gets zapped with a higher voltage at start. Destroys normal batteries within months, impossible to diagnose problems.

MyFordTouch touchscreen stereo. Hideous system that causes drivers to crash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyFord_Touch

If it aint broke don't fix it!

Bought and never used.. A now ex-mate bought an early Jaguar XK8 with timing chain rattle. We agreed that I would do the job and that he would pay for the tools which I would keep in payment. Next time I see him he arrives to show off his latest purchase, bought after chopping in the Jag..

I bought a slide hammer for removing a blind bearing in the Midas' transfer case. Did that, and it's sat in its box since. Amusingly I could have simply used my blowtorch to heat the casing and "slapped" the casing down on some soft wood to shock it out, but I didn't read about that until I'd got the slide hammer...

A pentagon socket for removal of Peugeot 205 brake calipers if I remember correctly, the replacements came with hex bolts so it's been in the tool box for at least 5 years.

Do some more miles and you’ll need it again !

James

These bl00dy things.

I bought them about 30 years ago to get the coils/springs of my Citroen Visa.
one of the things came of and the spring/coil hit me in the face.
I was wearing
and in anger I kicked a big dent in the door of my Visa.
I finished the job and threw them in the pond right next to our house .
I swore never to use these things ever again.

Injury was luckily minimal