New tool addition
I'm brainstorming what other inexpensive tools I should add to have a well rounded tool collection to take on anything.
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I see you have a lot of good suggestions, but if you don’t have a radiator pressure test set they are priceless.
Not only can it be used for radiator and cooling system pressure testing, they can tell you if you have blown/leaking head gaskets or cracked heads.
Multiple times I have seen a head gasket or cracked parts misdiagnosed as cooling system problems with money spent and work done that missed the actual problem.
Not long ago I got a local shop to refund over 1,000 to one of my Son’s friend’s because they replaced her radiator, water pump and all the hoses and her car overheated on the way home from the shop.
Upon a second look they found the heads were cracked and wanted another 1,100 to fix that.
The owner of the company agreed that had they pressure tested the cooling system in the first place they would have known it was a compression leak instead of a cooling system failure on the first diagnostic.
