made a new tool

[Frank Elder]

Or the smallest strap wrench in history:D

[mikemaker]

Cool. Thanks Young Ed. So glad that you were able to liberate the switch! You are really helping me out big time.

cheers,

mikemaker

[Young Ed]

Mike you'll be helping me when the box comes full of door locks

[Norm's Coupe]

Here's a few of the notched wrenches I mentioned before. You can get these in the auto parts store or hardware stores most of the time. And, they are cheap as you can see, but they work when you need them.

[Don Coatney]

I have a picture of Ed's tool. I just pictured it in my mind.

You have a mind:D

I have successfully used needle nose pliers to remove these bezels with no damage.

[mikemaker]

Cool, more than happy to rekey those locks.

cheers

mike

[Furylee2]

It would seem that a person could find a hollow metal tube, that was

sturdy enough for the task, and then do the notch on the end without

drilling thru the middle of a bolt. Lazy man's way out perhaps.

A friend of mine is doing a total restoration on his 41 coupe (bought it in 64). The headlight switch was the last thing to come out of the interior. He couldn’t get the bezel loose, so I came up with this Sunday. Took me about 10 minutes with a Drumel tool.

He called today, worked great! Used a boxed end wrench and it came right off.

[Young Ed]

Too funny. I recently stumbled across the actual tool for this job! I will have to post a picture of it tomorrow but I bought a snap on socket that does exactly this. I also found one in the same auction that does the special screws for the wiper motors.

[ledfootslim]

So now I've gotta ask.......what was the dinosaur standing on??????

[desoto1939]

There are several varieties of the tool that you just made on the Ebay. They are basically sockets that have been ground down to have the two flat notches on the ends.

There is a gentleman that has made all of the sockets to fits the various bezel's for the Mopar cars and trucks. It might be our contact with the trucks parts. I can not think of his name and the name of the company but if you look an ebay you will find these tools. I have one for my 39 Desoto and it fits on a 1/4 inch socket set.

Rich HArtung

[Young Ed]

There are several varieties of the tool that you just made on the Ebay. They are basically sockets that have been ground down to have the two flat notches on the ends.

There is a gentleman that has made all of the sockets to fits the various bezel's for the Mopar cars and trucks. It might be our contact with the trucks parts. I can not think of his name and the name of the company but if you look an ebay you will find these tools. I have one for my 39 Desoto and it fits on a 1/4 inch socket set.

Rich HArtung

Thats Eric "Townwagon" Bannerman he's a truck guy but the tools carry over. Here is his new version and a snap on one. The short ones on the left are for the special wiper motor screws.

 

Edited July 15, 2014 by Young Ed

[desoto1939]

Young Ed: Thnaks for posting Erics pictures. I have tool that is thrid from the left and this works on my 39 Desoto dash chrome bezels.

Rich HArtung

[Young Ed]

Young Ed: Thnaks for posting Erics pictures. I have tool that is thrid from the left and this works on my 39 Desoto dash chrome bezels.

Rich HArtung

Welcome. It works on my p15 stuff too along with my 46 pickup.