Our Third Unknown

[Badknuckles]

My friend thot it might be a Model T tool. The sockest appears to be 22/32. An 11/16 nut doesn't quite fit in but the socket is rusted. What little I know of old Fords they used some odd sizes like 21/32, 25/32 to make things difficult.

[bgarrett]

When you clean it, you may find information on it

[Badknuckles]

Well I clun it off with a wire brush then Muriatic acid then emery cloth then a finer brush and can find no place where there might have even been a chance of an ID mark. The socket has a groove around the middle and 5 grooves around the bottom part; lots of pits.

My conclusion it is a combination ratchet bumper jack handle and lug wrench. I tried it on 2 of my 3 ratchet jacks and it worked just fine. Of course lots of other things would also work but they don't have a lug wrench on the other end. The jacks are probly close to 100 years old cause they were there when I was born. Still use em occasionally.

[turnnut]

the shape and length is the same as a Mossberg 623 wrench that was a 5/8" hex socket.

the offset shank of this wrench was designed to clear obstacles when servising
the fourth connecting rod of the Model-T Ford

around 1916-1918

[Badknuckles]

Thank you. Very interesting. So my friend was correct.

Of course, if you need to jack up the car to work on the engine it could double as a jack handle. :-)

[turnnut]

in the older manufacturing process, some companies were making their wrenches 1/32" larger
than normal size to be sure they would fit.