AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY HAND TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

TOOLS/ DESCRIPTION ACTUAL PICTURE

EQUIPMENT
A. CLEANING TOOLS
SCRAPER A flat metal sheet used to remove hardened dirt,
grime or eve plastic stickers.

STEEL/WIRE Made of thin metal strips in a plastic or wooden

BRUSH handle used to clean and remove dirt, grime and
rust.

UTILITY RUG Used in wiping and cleaning dirt, dust and other
foreign materials present on surfaces

B. DRIVING TOOLS
BALLPEEN A two-headed hammer used to strike, bend and
HAMMER shape metals and drive cold chisels

RUBBER MAL LET A mallet with rubber head ideally to bend and
and shape sheet metal as it won’t leave marks.

STARTING PUNCH Used to start a pin or before removing rivets

initially.
CENTER PUNCH Used to mark holes in a work piece’s center
before boring using any boring tools.

C. LOOSENING AND TIGHTENING TOOLS

FLAT/STANDARD For driving, tightening or loosening philips screws
SCREWDRIVER or with single slots in their head.

PHILLIPS For driving, tightening or loosening philips screws

SCREWDRIVER or with cross slots in their head.

POZIDRIV For driving, tightening or loosening pozidriv

SCREWDRIVER screws or multiple cross-slotted screws.

ROBERTSON For driving, tightening or loosening rebertson

SCREWDRIVER screws or square-slotted screws.

TORX For driving, tightening or loosening torx screw or

SCREWDRIVER star-slotted screws.

STUBBY SCREW Shortened version of ordinary screwdrivers

DRIVER perfect for loosening very tight screws due to
close screw head and handle distance.
OPEN-ENDED Has both ends open or U in shape, available in
WRENCH different sizes to remove hexagonal nuts and
bolts when servicing.

BOX-ENDED Has its both ends closed or rounded, available in

WRENCH different sizes to fasten and unfasten hexagonal
nuts and bolts that open-ended wrench cannot
do, especially when nuts and bolts’ edges are
rounded off.

COMBINATION An open-ended wrench on one end and box-

WRENCH ended on other end used to fasten and unfasten
bolt and nuts wherever of the two ends is
comfortable to use.

ADJUSTABLE Has movable “jaws” that can easily be changed

WRENCH and adjusted depending on the size of on the
bolt or nut, as opposed to other wrenches where
only one unit can be used.

ALLEN WRENCH Used for turning allen screws or bolts with

hexagonal recesses or slots in its head.

SOCKET WRENCH A special kind of wrench that has a handle and

in-built joint that can turn at any position and a
socket that fits into the nut or bolt’s head for
firmer grip when fastening or unfastening nuts
and bolts.

OIL FILTER Use to grip the oil filter via a strap or chain being
WRENCH pulled in tension around it until it firmly grips.
SPARK PLUG Has opening at both the end specially used to
WRENCH fasten or unfasten the spark plugs which are
usually hard and inaccessible to remove.

LUG/TIRE Has a socket in four direction that loosen or

WRENCH tighten the vehicle wheel’s nuts when changing
wheels or tire.

PNEUMATIC Special equipment that fasten nuts faster with its

IMPACT WRENCH strong torque because of compressed air as
compared to using wrenches.

D.BENDING/HOLDING/TWISTING TOOLS
SIDE-CUTTING Used mainly for cutting different kinds of wires,
PLIERS may it be solid or stranded.

COMBINATION For gripping, bending, twisting and skinning wires,

PLIERS usually in used in wiretapping and splicing

LONG-NOSED Use for holding, bending twisting and gripping

PLIERS small wires, ideally used to reach conspicuous
areas during servicing
VISE-GRIP Used to hold work-piece such as metal and steel
pieces while cutting and nuts and bolt’s fastening
or removal.

BENC VISE Permanently attached to a working table,

practical to used to hold metal pieces when being
cut, shaped or bent.

E.CUTTING TOOLS
HALF- ROUND Used to shape or remove cut materials in metal
FILE pipes with its flat side.

FLAT FILE Serves as a substitute in sharpening bladed tool

and filing down and deburring sharp nicks for a
smoother finish.

COLD CHISEL Use for massive works like cutting bolts or heavy
metals impossible to cut by shears and hacksaws

HACKSAW A saw with fine teeth used to cut metal pipes and
bars.
ELECTRIL DRILL A motor-driven drill used to bore round holes in
metal pipes, bars and in concrete walls.

ANGLE GRINDER Used for abrading, cutting, grinding and polishing

cut metals and pipes.

METAL Used to cut thin metal sheets like G.I sheet and
SHEARS/TINNER tie wires
SNIPS

SCRIBER Pointed til steel or metal rod used to mark fine

lines during laying out.

PENCIL The most common markings tool in drawing lines

and marking tool in drawing lines and marking in
workpiece.

G. MEASURING TOOLS
TORQUE Used to measure the torque(twisting force) when
WRENCH bolts and nuts are being tightened

CALIPER Use mainly to measure diameters, thickness and

the thinness of circular objects.
METAL TAPE A convenient to use measuring tool flexible
MEASURE/PULL- enough to measure work-piece in relative
PUSH TAPE lenghts.

FEELER GAUGE Used to measure clearances and set gaps among

mechanical parts in the engine such as valve
clearances, spark plugs

MULTI-TESTER Diagnostic equipment used to measure voltage,

resistance, and current in batteries and other
electrical and electronic parts.

H. LIFTING TOOLS
SCISSOR JACK Known as a jackscrew, used to lift the vehicle
during servicing using the squeezing scissor
action.

HYDRAULIC JACK Commonly-known as floor jack, used to lift the

vehicle by stepping on the handle until its lifting
bar hits the vehicle’s lifting point.

JACK STAND Used as support in keeping the vehicle raised

while being serviced, usually placed after using
the jacks in lifting the vehicle.