Any good auto parts store with a KD rack or equivalent can get this for you. 6mm triple square or 12 point. For a really good one, go to Zelenda or Hazet.

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: Anonymous Digest <jbrush@AROS.NET>
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:29 pm
Subject: So some CV's require a "custom" tool?

> I guess the tool I was looking at last night at my FLAPS were not
> at all
> the right ones, and its no wonder no one behind the counter had a clue
> what I was talking about. The only thing I saw close was
> apparently just
> really large Torx stuff. I didn't get up close to the bolts on my
> joints,only enough to see that they were not Allen heads, and that
> they had
> mulitple points inside.
>
> Good information for the archives so the next guy doesn't get
> caught flat
> footed like me. My CVs need the 'star' tool, which is 12 points?
> and not
> in an auto parts store? Nah, there must be places that sell them
> and I am
> asking the wrong question.
>
> I was told I can get it from Bus Depot, but that's a bummer in
> that I have
> to order, wait, pull the joint, see if it can be reused, and then
> maybeorder a new CV, wait, and install it.....
>
> First I want to take the shaft off and see what I am up against.
>
> I think I am missing something here that would make this a lot easier.
> Anyone bought this 12 point tool at Sears, Home Depot, FLAPS, or
> whatever?Its not  mentioned at all in any of the writeups that I
> have seen, as
> being a hard part to find.
>
> Might not be good that I am not in need of the van because its
> giving me
> too much time to sit and think, when I ought to be out there
> taking it
> apart and getting it done. Therefore, I want to find this '12 point'
> socket tool and get going.
>
> I know that I am now going around in circles about this, so go
> ahead and
> tell me how far off the track I have gotten :-)
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> John
>