The tool kits also contained a steel hammer, the 500 gram “French Pattern Carpenter’s Hammer”. This type of hammer is fairly common in France and northern Italy. There were several suppliers over the years and slight differences in all of them. This is a perfect reproduction of one of the originals. These steel hammers will damage the “Knock-offs” and should not be used on them. 500 Gram French Pattern Steel Hammer
The inside plug twelve cylinder cars had a set of tongs that was used to pull off the spark plug boots when changing the plugs. The plugs were located “inside” the V of the engine between the intake manifolds and were very hard to reach by hand, particularly on a hot racing engine. The early tongs were black. After about 1957 the later tongs were cad-plated. Black Spark Plugs Boot Tongs
The 275s and 330 GTCs had changed to a rear mounted transaxle with independent rear suspension. The rear hub puller supplied in the tool kits consisted of five pieces: the Tommy bar, the screw, the cross bar and the two mounting screws. Rear Hub Puller Set.
Ferrari used these button-type grease fittings from the very earliest cars until the 275’s. During the production of the 250 series cars some of the pieces purchased from outside suppliers used the normal snap-on type. The sealed tie rod ends are a good example showing that a lot of the later cars used both types of grease fittings. The button type grease fittings were made of brass and plated with a very thin layer of nickel. The nickel finish quickly wore off due to dust and dirt on the road plus the factory recommended 2,500 mile lubrication schedule. The button type grease fittings all used the same dimension for the shaft and head but there was a variety of thread sizes. 10x1mm: Used on some of the clutch and brake pedal linkage.