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Kent-Moore made all the special tools for GM and AMC back in the day. I was working at a Chevy garage and they bought out the local AMC dealer. They had all of these tools as duplicates and decided to have a garage sale. I bought a large pile for pennies on the dollar and made quite a few specialty tools of my own out of them

When I was working on Harley's for a livin' Kent Moore ( Spent Moore ) was a good quality as well.

I have a master mechanic socket set from true value and it is very good quality. Sockets fit nice and good ratchet. dont know who makes them for them.

That's why one has to dig through those buckets & milk crates at flea markets & garage sales.

No, never worked there but I did get to tour the plant. That was in the square hood era. Some years later, after they moved out, the plant was up for sale and the company I worked for was considering buying it. There was considerable evidence of potential ground contamination where the paint line exhaust was. It was disclosed and the new buyer had to assume clean up. We backed away.

After l bent the balancer puller plate and destroyed the threads on a advance auto PT brand one. I returned that one for the warranty. And ordered a used snap-on from eBay for $30, 100% worth it. I was going between this snap-on, and a old Mac puller. Ended up going snap-on because of the applications I am using it for, the snap-on's design let's the plate sit a little closer, when pulling on shafts like this. I am not huge on tool truck name tool brands. I have many different brands in my toolbox, lot of old craftsman, crescent, masterforce (menards brand) are the main ones. But these pullers, are one tool I would definitely go name brand, or at least old on.

Nice score. That appears to be a good quality steering wheel pluuer. Fine threads on the jacking screw. grade 8 on the capscrews & washers. Can't tell if it has the floating tip on the screw - most likely does. Another good nane in pullers is OTC - Ottowa Tool Company.

Ya know I looked for that several times this morning between calls at work, and could not find it.

@mae I know this is an old post, but thought I'd share. Back in the day there were not many Wheel Horse dealers in Texas. The few that were around were in the NE and East side of Texas. For what it's worrh, an older gentleman at a tractor show told me the Lowes in Bryan College Station (home of Texas A&M college) sold wheel Horses for a few years back in the late 70's or early eighties. Someone has that Lowes listed on the Dealer list thread on this site.

Snap On, Williams, Armstrong all good quality.

Vintage tools are the key.

The ’64-65 Fair in Flushing Meadows was a major event for my family. Since my aunt was a Ford stockholder at the time, it got us on the short line to ride in a Mustang along the “Magic Skyway."

Got some new tires that I thought would be a good reference here. Armstrong "Big Bite" 16x8.50-8. 4 ply rated. Actual measurements are dead on 16 inches tall, 8 and 3/8 wide. First pic is one next to a 7.50 wide tire, next beside the old Firestone 6.50 tri ribs. Mounted on 8x7 wheels.

Back in the day lumber was properly dried. Can't be doing that today that costs lumber makers money! Back on track here Lennox and other brands started selling furnaces & ACs in big boxes. The buyer then had to or were supposed to contact bona fide contractors or dealers to install it and that's where the the buyer got taken to the house. Us dealers were gonna make our margin no matter what so it didn't tick us off. Joe home owner would get a price for me and then look at what he could buy it for at a big box and DIY. What lovely installs I have seen. Then Joe would want me to warranty it! Same with internet sales. I would get those calls and told people flat out I can't help them. I got enough problems with the crap that went through my doors. I did throw the manufactures under the bus and give the guy their customer service number. Suspect big boxes did the same and referred people back to the dealers so an endless circle of headaches for the buyer. Lennox always told me they would never sell at big boxes or the the internet but they were liars. They make their money by moving boxes so go figure. It was always their low end stuff that was junk even if it was installed correctly. I don't know if did this with their low end gray tractors or not but it wouldn't surprise me although big boxes were not nearly as big in the early 80's as they are now. Can you say super Walmart?!?!? You want that new chainsaw go to a outdoor power dealer who can service it.

The gray units in the mid 80's were the GT series. I bought a new 84 GT-1100 at a dealer. I basically grew up a stones throw from their plant in South Bend and never heard of them being sold at a big box store. That talk comes up every now and then.