Tools & Shop Equipment

Tools for the Install and the Trail

Two kinds of tools end up in this section. There are the ones that make an accessory install possible, and there are the ones that live in a Jeep or a truck for when a trail day stops going to plan. Both are the sort of thing you only shop for once you have needed one.

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On the install side, Rough Country covers nutsert tooling, Factor 55 has snap-ring pliers, and Firestone Ride-Rite supplies hose cutters and compressor mounting brackets for air suspension work. Bilstein, Fabtech, Air Lift Performance and FIA add specialty pieces tied to their own products.

On the recovery side, Rampage carries most of it: torx tool kits, multi-shovels, trail axes, machetes and utility knives, the kit that rides in the back and gets used to clear a downed limb or dig a tire out. Go Rhino, JKS, Smittybilt and Rugged Ridge fill in the rest.

Nothing here is a general tool-chest replacement. These are the specific pieces that a suspension job, an accessory mount or a stuck vehicle actually calls for, and the reason to buy one is that a normal socket set will not do it.

Common Questions

What is a nutsert tool used for?

Installing threaded inserts into sheet metal. A nutsert gives you a solid threaded hole in a panel that was never drilled for one, which is how a lot of accessories get mounted without welding. The tool sets the insert and pulls it tight. Doing it with pliers and hope is how you end up drilling the hole out again.

What should ride in the vehicle rather than the garage?

The recovery side of this list. A shovel, an axe or a saw, a decent knife and a compact tool kit cover the situations that strand people: a limb across the trail, a tire buried in sand, a bolt that backed out miles from anywhere. None of it is heavy, and it is all worthless sitting on a shelf at home.