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Got acquainted with this last Tuesday, for taking out the engine mount. It has a funny nickname in Portuguese, "O Saca", which I quite can't find an equivalent in English (something like "The Drawer"? from the cowboy verb "to draw"). Anyway, what is its proper name in English and does it also have a nickname? And are there any other tools with interesting nicknames (and, asking too much, the stories behind them)?

Draw=Pull

It's called a "Puller"

"Flywheel puller", "Wheel Puller" or some variation of that..

Many thanks. Now that you wrote it, it looks obvious...

a vise grip is called a "vieze griep" in dutch. kind of a phonetical translation of the English word. Translated literally back into English it means dirty flue

Also "gear puller" or "harmonic balancer puller" are two more common Americanized English terms used for that type puller. The Portugese word makes sense, since it "draws" the part off its shaft.

Scott

Second Air Force wrote:Also "gear puller" or "harmonic balancer puller" are two more common Americanized English terms used for that type puller. The Portugese word makes sense, since it "draws" the part off its shaft.

Scott

"O Saca" strikes a funny note to me (and that's why I asked) because it can be understood has someone who is taking something out of someone, generally not very gently...

S

Try this one then:


Hint:
It's nickname comes from a part of equine anatomy...

Its a "Hammer with a Thyroid problem"!

Hi Reis:

You have an extra Harvard exhaust?

A2C wrote:Hi Reis:

You have an extra Harvard exhaust?

Sorry A2C, I don't recall an extra Harvard exhaust in the Museum facilities.

It's called a gear puller, maybe also wheel puller.

Harmonic balancer," crankshaft torsional damper", better not be pulled with one of those. It may
ruin it.

noizeedave wrote:Its a "Hammer with a Thyroid problem"!

Actually it's known in the autobody trade as a "horse cock"