Favorite Tools

What are some of your favorite tools that you feel make your work more enjoyable and/or more efficient?

Some of mine are:

1/2" stubby IR impact. It gets right in most places and has plenty of punch.

Extra long ratcheting wrenches. If I were just starting out, this would be the set I recommend. Adjustable reversable heads, lots of leverage, great for caliper brackets.

Swivel sockets. Combined with the short stubby impact these are like gold.

Motive Power Bleeder. One person job and I like it muct better than the vacuum style.

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Cordless power tools
For balljoints-Snapon balljoint press
Pico and scantool

I also love my pressure brake bleeder it saves a huge amount of time, also to my cooling system pressure tester and leak down tester. I also use extra long "Aviation Wrenches" but not the ratcheting kind
I recently bought an extra extra long 1/2" drive ratchet which in some situations will do things you can't do with a breaker bar.

For normal ratchets I tend to use swivel head --- actually a gimbal style head rather than the more common type with a hinge on neck of the handle. This gimbal style dosen't tend to flip off the bolt head

Link to example on Amazon UK


I also picked up a stubby ratchet which is double sided 3/8" on one side 1/4" on the other similar to this
Link to example on Ebay UK