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Subject:Re: Putting on tires: three hands
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:44:42 -0700

On 08/28/2012 10:17 AM, Vern in Bend wrote:
>  > My tow-trucker-driver stepson thinks he might find such a thing handy in
>> his toolkit and asks, "What other cars might this fit on?"
>
> If there are many makes/models of vehicles with this 'condition', then I'm
> surprised there is not a standard tow-driver kit with the different
> sizes/threads.

I know, right?

I guess that tow drivers often just muscle things rather than finesse
them. According to the stepson, there is no such a thing as a "standard
kit": each driver supplies his own lunchbox, boots, and toolbag of small
tools and not count on the truck to come with the tools they are used to.

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.