Does Your Shop Have These 5 Essential Tools?

We work on cars every day, and that got us thinking: What are five tools that every home shop needs? Here are the favorites from the Grassroots Motorsports crew.

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[Grassrootsmotorsports]

What are the 5 best tools you have in your garage?

[TrentMayo]

Good go-to's! My little Milwaukee M12 tire inflator is so dang useful and compact, not only for filling up or topping off tires but for all the bike tires, sporting equipment, soccer balls, etc in the family garage. The M12 Fuel ratchet is also one of the first tools I enevidibly grab on a project.

[jfriz]

Motive Power Bleeder. Great for one man bands.

[thewyattfletcher]

Great video, both educational and easy to identify with. You guys covered all but one of my top 5: a 2-post lift. Honestly, it's been the absolute best tool I've purchased, and I only got a low ceiling MaxJax M6. The obvious benefits aside, it's been the less obvious ones that have been the most significant: I hurt less, I work longer, I stay more motivated, and I'm less intimidated by a lot of jobs. I'll tell anyone that will listen, skip buying your next project car and buy a lift instead. Wish I had so so much earlier in life.

[erick.]

+1 on Dewalt 1/4" torque wrench, mine last for 10yrs still working great 👍

[zeitgeist]

Dewalt 20V system, picks and headlamp are super high on my list too but a socket caddy and wrench caddy rank right up there. It is nice to grab 2 things and have almost all the sockets and wrenches I would likely need right at hand under the car so no need to keep getting up and down or back to the toolbox if I didn't get the right tool on the first try. They also keep the sockets and wrenches from rolling around while having the next size smaller or larger right next to the open slot.

[gcznmnp]

Bandaids, finger splints, splint tape, burn cream, & 151 Rum pain reliever.

[jwrski]

A lift, creeper, lighting, fan, parts holder for small parts like screws and bolts.

[Redshift]

Like for the M12 Stubby. They are fantastic.

[spencerjohnson]

I'm surprised y'all are using little impacts instead of cordless socket wrenches, my cordless socket slips in anywhere and i can put a lot of breaking torque on it, then let the batteries do the boring part.

[metube]

Why haven't professional mechanics, woodworkers, lawn and garden people, etc around the world revolted and broke down the gates at SAE or ANSI to demand a universal battery for cordless tools? We have AAA, AA, C, and Ds, so why not a single battery for cordless

[apricity]

Trackmat by Bedrug. It"ll save your knees, works better than cardboard or a creeper, and you can fold up your tools in it like a taco to move them to the next wheel. Bonus: sockets and lugnuts fit in the handle holes so they won"t roll away.