Required Tool List
Each participant in the Automotive Service Technology GM Automotive Service Educational Program (ASEP) is required to purchase, or possess by the start of the first co-op period, all of the tools listed below. Students will purchase one of each item unless otherwise stated.
[¼ Inch Drive] [½ Inch Drive] [3/8 Inch Drive] [Pliers] [Screwdrivers] [Wrenches] [Miscellaneous]
¼ Inch Drive
- Drive deep metric socket: 4-15mm
- Drive handle
- Drive ratchet: 4 to 5½ inch in length
- Drive socket set 3/16-3/8 inch (recommended)
- Extension 2 inch
- Extension 6 inch
½ Inch Drive
- Adapter: ¼ to 3/8 inch
- Adapter: 3/8 to ½ inch
- Breaker bar: 18 inch
- Drive extension: 3 inch
- Drive extension: 10 inch
- Drive impact socket: 19mm
- Drive impact socket: 20mm
- Drive impact socket: ¾ and 13/16 inch
- Drive ratchet: 10 inch in length
- Drive socket set: 7/16 to 1 inch
3/8 Inch Drive
- Drive deep metric sockets - 6mm, 8-15mm, 17mm, 20mm
- Drive deep socket set: ¼-7/8 6 point (recommended)
- Drive extension: 1 inch
- Drive extension: 3 inch
- Drive extension: 12 inch
- Drive ratchet: approximately 8 inch
- Drive socket set: - ¼ to 7/8 inch
- Drive spark plug sockets: 5/8 inch and 1 3/16 inch (flex recommended)
- Set Torx drive bits
- Universal
Pliers
- Adjustable joint (channel lock): 12 inch
- Diagonal cutting
- Needle nose
- Slip joint
- Vise grip: 10 inch
Screwdrivers
All screwdrivers should be purchased as a set.
- Phillips: #1, #2 and #3 (total of 3)
- Straight blade: stub, small, medium, medium large, large (total of 5)
- Torx drive
Wrenches
All wrenches should be purchased as a set.
- Allen: metric
- Allen: standard shank
- Combination box and open end: ¼ to 1 inch
- Crescent: 10 inch
- Flare: metric
- Flare: standard
- Metric combination: 9-19mm
Miscellaneous
- Brake tools: return, hold down
- Brass drift
- Chisels: 7/16, 5/8 inch (total of 2)
- Feeler gauges: flat, metric and standard graduations (set)
- Flashlight, with batteries
- Feeler gauge: brass (set)
- Gasket scraper
- Hand file flat with handle 10 inch
- Hammer: ball peen (set)
- Hammer: plastic tip
- Inspection mirror
- Knife
- Measuring tape
- Oil filter wrenches
- Pick-up magnet
- Prybar: pinch or crowbar
- Punches: 1/8, 3/16, 5/16 inch (total of 3)
- Punch: center
- Rubber mallet
- Safety goggles/glasses (instructor approved only)
- Spark plug gap adjusting tool: round wire type 0.024 to 0.080 inch
- Steel rule: 6 inch graduated in 1/64 inch
- Test light: 12 volt
- Tire pressure gauge
- Tool chest, lockable with drawers
- Valve core remover
