Abstract: A compact ratcheting driver has a handle portion and a an extendible ratcheting head portion. The head portion has a pair of parallel guide rails which are coplanar with and extend into the handle to engage a pair of complementary guide shoulders formed within the handle. The head portion includes ratcheting means connected to a driver element for engaging and driving an element to be driven and detent means for selectively locking the head portion in either an extended disposition or a retracted disposition. In one embodiment, the handle portion includes a fixed drive socket. In a second embodiment, the handle includes selectively manually actuated lighting means to illuminate a work area in which the ratcheting driver element is to engage a driven element.

Abstract: A power steering pump pulley removal tool has a pair of jaws mounted by mounting fasteners on opposite faces of a hub which has a threaded passageway extending axially therethrough. The jaws are in longitudinal alignment with one another and the passageway and have complementary arcuate gripping elements formed thereon so as to be remote from the hub. A pair of laterally aligned grip-holding fasteners extend between the jaws adjacent their gripping elements and are operable to hold the jaws in a closed, pulley engaging position. The hub has a handle extending laterally therefrom. A complementarily threaded drive bolt is disposed in the hub passageway so as to have a power steering pump drive shaft engaging end adjacent the gripping elements and a drive end remote therefrom.

Abstract: An extension bar for use between a portable driving tool and a driven element includes an elongated body with an integrally formed first end adapted to receive the driving element and an integrally formed second end adapted to engage the driven element, the elongated body having a hollow interior which contains a battery. An illumination control is selectively operable to electrically connect the battery and a light source to illuminate an area surrounding the second end. A transverse passageway extends through the elongated body and has an elongated switch element slidably disposed therein. A pair of insulator rings, disposed one on each end of the switch element, are operable when the switch element is in a first disposition to open the electrical connection between the battery and the light source and are operable when the switch element is in a second disposition to complete the electrical circuit between the battery and the light source.

Abstract: A ratcheting wrench, of the type having an elongated handle connected at one end by a neck to a ratchet head having a drive stem, has a manually selectively operable source of illumination contained in the handle and a fiber optic rod bundle contained in the a channel formed in the neck. The fiber optic rod bundle transmits light from the illumination source through the channel so that the transmitted light exits the wrench adjacent the drive stem in a beam which illuminates a lateral work area below and in axial alignment with the drive stem.

Abstract: A self-adjusting ratcheting wrench has an elongated handle terminating at one end in a fixed jaw, a movable jaw pivotally attached to the handle so as to close on the fixed jaw and terminating at one end in a pair of jaw faces forming an obtuse angle and separated from one another by a lateral groove and at the other end in a tail, the pivotal attachment being disposed between the tail and the jaw faces, an actuator arm pivotally attached at one end to the tail and at the other end in a thumb plate and connected therebetween to the handle so that the actuator arm is laterally offset from and longitudinally slidable along the handle, a leaf spring disposed in and pivotally attached to the handle, and a coil spring disposed in the handle so as to urge the leaf spring against a convex camming surface formed on the movable jaw adjacent the tail, whereby torque applied to the handle in a first direction causes the jaws to close on an element contained therebetween so as to apply the torque to the element, torque a

Abstract: An improvement in a ratcheting driver of the type having a handle, a driver head connected to the handle, a driver stem, ratchet means contained in the head and including ratcheting direction selector means disposed on the head in axial alignment with and remote from the driver stem and operable to lock the driver stem against rotation in a direction which is preselected by the user by the limited rotation of the ratcheting direction selector means in a predetermined direction, consisting of a ratcheting direction control wheel disposed on the head in axial alignment with and remote from the driver stem and fixed to the ratchet means, and a control wheel cover disposed over the control wheel so as to be separated from the head thereby and locked to the head.