6mm triple star tool - what VW job is it FOR?

I think some of the water cooled cars used the 6mm driver for cam cover bolts.

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You're right, the CV joints take an 8mm XZN tool. Some of the later replacement disk brake caliper halves were held together with something like this, but smaller. Could that have been it?

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The 74/75 bus 1800 with the 215mm flywheel uses a 6mm triple square for the 6 clutch bolts. The bolts are 7mm.

72/73 1700 210mm clutch and the 76-83 2.0L 228mm clutch use 13mm headed 8mm bolts, like a bug. The 914 1.8 also uses the 6mm triple square clutch bolts...... Does any of this bring back memories? :)

uh-oh, I've never owned a watercooled VW.

maybe it was for something on the autosticksift tranny? I already got my calipers totally apart, including pistons removed, easily, (without using that 6 pointed thing) using some bizarre method I invented 'spur of the moment' involving soft 3/4 inch pine, my big vice, and a HUGE pair of vice grips clamped to the piston end, and a 'crowbar sized' screwdriver for 'twisting leverage' on the vicegrips -very- near the piston top, between the vicegrip jaws. some "JB Blaster" was also involved, but dem babies came RIGHT on up out'a there, pretty easily...

ahh, jeeze...that star tool might remain a mystery; I might've "ordered" it back then thinking it was the 'right' size for the CV joints at the time. didn't buy it for brake work back then, either, as I hadn't even 'contemplated that far ahead yet' ... :-/

thanks for your ideas guys :-)

"Karl" said == The 74/75 bus 1800 with the 215mm flywheel uses a 6mm triple square for the 6 clutch bolts. The bolts are 7mm.

72/73 1700 210mm clutch and the 76-83 2.0L 228mm clutch use 13mm headed 8mm bolts, like a bug. The 914 1.8 also uses the 6mm triple square clutch bolts...... Does any of this bring back memories? :) == well, no 'bringbacks' yet, karl. 1600cc is biggest VW engine I've owned to date. but I'd LIKE to get a 2.0 engine someday, to stick in the ghia, so maybe it's not a "total" loss :-)

owning tools I bought _used_ is one thing, even if they sit around unused for years, but owning NEW tools I know =I= bought new and forget what they're FOR is, well, quite another...not quite as pleasant, so to speak...all I can figure is it must'a been a "supplier malfunction" ;-/

Could that be for the bolts holding the autostick torque converer on? I remember being vexed by these little funny-headed bolts when I TRIED to drop the engine on my sister's '68 autostick in the driveway (on the ice) back in the winter of 1977... got REAL COLD and, if I remember right... end up putting it back in place. (Probably was trying to fix a rear main oil leak or something.

None of the choices I listed were watercooled!! ALL are air-cooled.

Bill, I went down to the local VW parts store about seven years ago, and they sold me the one for the rear axel screws,................it came with the 6mm one also. Is it possible you , too, have been blessed with some uselss tool that came with a useful one?

This happens all the time with hardware too,................they sell in three packs what you only need one of, or hotdgogs,....................you know, eight buns, ten franks......

I bet that's how you got the tool,...................in a set with the other one that you needed.

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YOW! now the bells _are_ ringing! a big conGRATSyouLAYTIONS :-) to you, sir! I remember the same thing, seems like (uhh, 5 yrs ago or so, when I first removed the engine and some of the torque converter things) I had some problems in that area - I may've ended up 'temporarily' gripping their 'heads' with tiny vice-grips or something, to start their removals, or maybe used a 'close approximation' allen wrench....I must've deceided to buy the 'right' tool for the reinstall, hence it's still blister packed :-)

you GOT it, buddy. you're *definitely* the WINNER of the 'guess that weird VW tool' contest for this week - thanks :-)

and thanks to all once again :-)