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Yeah they came like that. If you wanted to fill the slots, earlier cars came with a spark plug socket and handle that uses those locations. They also got a top tray with pliers, two spanners and a screwdriver.
Here are the two tray, plus the top tray. I have fabricated myself the Spark Plug Sockets and the Handles..... Still missing the Spanners, which I want to find the right ones or ones that match as best as possible the originals.
It seems you generally need a thin walled socket to remove the spark plugs? Would the tool kit socket actually work?
You only need a thin wall socket for exotic spark plugs that sit deep into the rotor housing. The standard NGK plugs (BUR7EQP/9EQP) can use any standard spark plug socket.
That stamped steel socket with a rod is common in Japanese motorcycle tool kits.
I have a JDM tool kit on my car, bought it ages ago. The tools are SUPER crappy that it comes with, thin with the cheapest finish possible.
The tool kit is cool but the usefulness is pretty small.
I think it would be awesome to have a nice actually useful tool kit that fits back there.
A while back I cut out the bottom tool tray and removed the stock lug nut tool and put an extendible Gorilla breaker bar tool with 21mm socket. Fits in there nicely with some trimming of the tray and is WAY more useful than the crappy stock tool.
While we're on the subject of FD tool sets, when I got my FD from its PO, I discovered the pictured tool set in the hatch area. It's not like the JDM foam trays pictured in the previous posts, but a zippered pouch shaped to fit in that same area, which is where I found it. Since my FD is a USDM car, maybe this was a dealer option? Anyone know?
Judging from the # of open slots/spaces in the pouch, most of the tools it may have had at one point are long since missing, but what you see here is what I got - a metric open end wrench, a Phillips screwdriver, and some small jeweler's screwdrivers (WTF would anyone need those to fix a broken FD?)
Closed pouch Open pouch with tools it contained. Looks like there are slots for 2 more wrenches adjacent to the 1 wrench it had, and perhaps a small prybar/lugnut wrench on the other side? The jeweler's screwdrivers were in the slots along the pouch's center spine.
I've NEVER seen that before. Someone may have found some tool kit that is generally the right shape and size and put it back there. The tiny screwdrivers make me think it was for a different purpose, there's very little need for jeweler's screwdrivers on an FD especially if you are on the side of the road.
I've NEVER seen that before. Someone may have found some tool kit that is generally the right shape and size and put it back there. The tiny screwdrivers make me think it was for a different purpose, there's very little need for jeweler's screwdrivers on an FD especially if you are on the side of the road.
Dale
^My thoughts exactly. I figure the PO just stuck them in there for some reason; I suppose those two skinny slots there could have held pens instead.
Originally Posted by Redbul
Show it to Sakebomb. New Product. Likely get 1000 sales!
Yup, cheap case & some cheap tools + "custom FD parts development tax" = PROFIT!
11-30-21, 01:46 AM
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Yup, cheap case & some cheap tools + "custom FD parts development tax" = PROFIT!
