Lug Wrench?

[Bradley S.]

Hi;

Anybody know what this is? I think it is a lug wrench. It has a 3/4" hex drive on one end of the handle and a 1/2" square drive on the other end.

Is it a Dodge product?

Thanks in advance for the technical advice!

Brad

[MBF]

I've got one of those-but its a John Deere Lug wrench for the Dayton styled rear wheels on my 53 JD AO. Mike

[norrism1]

Looks like a hand crank. Ford maybe?

[70rtse440]

I just went out to the man cave and I have one also, looks like a lug wrench, but not sure what the 1/2" end is for, maybe using a flex bar for extra leverage. Found mine in my 51 B-3-C

[Zeke1953]

I got one of those with my '53. The 3/4' end is definitely for the wheel lugs. I don't know what the other end is for, but I've thought that maybe some kind of hand crank extension might fit in there. Has anybody ever seen one?

[desoto1939]

These tools were an extra tool for the car owner also. The square end used used with the rod than when into the crank to turn the engine over via hand cranking.

Also the hex nut end was used to turn the hex nut on the fender skits.

Rich Hartung

Desoto1939@aol.com

[JoelOkie]

Some filler plugs are also removed with a 1/2 square....the transmission filler in my 49 Dodge PU for one. Don't know as that would have been a specific function of this tool, though, as a long handled breakover works better for plug removal.

I haven't personally seen a square crankshaft hole in anything. All those such as the ones found on both my 37 Plymouth pickup, and 49 Dodge PU, and was on my 46 Ford pickup, and a Farmall A model tractor I have, are the standard angled, or beveled cuts or notches where the crank goes into the engine, and the hand cranks have a couple of studs, so it turns loose when the engine kicks. All the cranks I have ever had are all just one piece cranks. I know some tractors carry the crank on the front, and it has a spring you push in to engage, and it disengages when the engine catches. But I certaintly haven't had much more experience with any of them other than my own few cars and tractors, so if this is a crank handle that does connect with a piece that gets on into the engine, it must have been the inside piece of crank that then disengages when engine catches? A square hole/end on a engine crank that might not turn loose when the engine fired sure looks like something that could get you hurt. Joel

Edited December 14, 2009 by JoelOkie