What is it?

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I admit it, I am a tool hog. If I see a hand tool I think I may need sometime in my life I will buy it.
So I was cleaning out my tool box the other day and came across this. I assume I bought it but for the life of me I don't know when or why. The only thing I know for sure is that it is for a bike, car or aircraft and not a boat.
So I'm calling on the group expertise to help me identify what it is and what it does.
It's a 10" long steel rod bent 90 degrees at the 4" mark with a 3/4" nut attached (braized?) on the end.
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Looks like it would be for removing a nut or bolt from a hard to access location. Possibly a starter? As for which vehicle I haven't a clue but it would work on any of them.
 

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It's got a threaded nut on the end. The long bar it's attached to would limit spinning it on a stud. But given enough room it could be used to rotate— something.

Maybe a handle for something? Run a bolt through a flange and screw it into that tool to carry something?

Running a bolt through a threaded nut into a threaded hole would be a very specific use case.
 
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I can't imagine what that could be used for, but I'm sure it was a one-application specialty tool at the time you needed it. Since you can't remember what that one application was, its probably not something you're ever going to use again.
 
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Dang....you beat me Mellow!
I only knew what it was because I have friends that work in a suspension specialty shop.
Good Job.
We should vote to make you Administrator of the Year :rofl1:
 

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And I thought for sure it was Brooklyn Boy's first attempt at making his own highway pegs.

Joe takes the fun out of everything.
 

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And.........how long did you have to search for that?
I'd seen it before but just never alone like that... then it finally clicked where and it was a quick search... what took longer was for the search within my brain..
 
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Mystery solved by Mellow, good job. It's the handle for a progressive shock compression tool. I had the handle in my everyday tool box and the rest in my tool chest. Shows how much I used it. I think I got it around 2005 when we were changing the springs on a 1998 VFR.
Thanks Mellow

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that's odd, why wouldn't they just put a plain nut on it and have you use a regular wrench? Does that 90 degree bend in the handle make it easier to crank faster or something?
 

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that's odd, why wouldn't they just put a plain nut on it and have you use a regular wrench? Does that 90 degree bend in the handle make it easier to crank faster or something?
Maybe there's a matching ice cream maker that the handle doubles for!

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that's odd, why wouldn't they just put a plain nut on it and have you use a regular wrench? Does that 90 degree bend in the handle make it easier to crank faster or something?
If you put a nut on it some one (me ) would run it down with an impact gun .:spank1:
 
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If you put a nut on it some one (me ) would run it down with an impact gun .:spank1:
But nothing is stopping you from doing that anyway (unless they used their own proprietary thread pitch that only their tool will fit)
 
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