Found a $8 harbor freight pry bar that beats my $60 one for injector cups

Stripping injector cups on a 6.0 in Columbus last week and my Snap-on kept slipping. Grabbed a cheap HF flat bar from the truck, ground the tip down to a chisel edge, and it popped all 8 cups without any fuss. Used it with a slide hammer adapter I rigged from an old u-joint. Anyone else modding cheap tools for specific jobs instead of dropping cash on the fancy stuff?

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hernandez.gavin1d agoMost Upvoted

Ground the HF one down to fit a tight spot on a seized brake caliper bracket and it held up better than my Matco punch. Cheap steel is soft enough to shape easy, but it still takes a beating if you don't overheat it. Half the tool cost is the name, the other half is knowing what to grind off.

the_faith1d ago

nah see you got lucky with that one. cheap steel is cheap for a reason, it might flex or shatter when you least expect it. that snap-on slipping probably just needed a better bite on the cup, not a whole new tool you're gonna have to re-grind every few jobs