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Special tool J-23457 from the fisher body manual my google fu must be off
It came up with T50 and that's waaay to big I can't seem to find the proper size.
It's a T-50. I have two T-50 torx sockets in my toolbox; one is Chinesium and doesn't fit worth a damn, the other is part of an old Snap-On set that my father gave to me, it fits like a glove. Sometimes you gotta clean out the crud to get the torx to fit.
GM used a sort-of "Torx"-style wrenching surface YEARS before Torx was invented. Yeah, it's six-lobed ("Hex Lobular") like Torx, but it's angular where Torx is rounded.
DO NOT put a "real" Torx (generically called "star") rounded-wrenching-surface tool in the GM strikers that are made for the angular GM-special tool.
I don't doubt that Kent-Moore supplied a tool that fit decently. The ONLY other company I know of that made a good-fitting tool for the strikers (and maybe some seat-belt bolts) was Snap-On. I ended up with three of them on eBay purchases. The GM-style hex lobular tool is some version of Snap-On P/N FTX500; industrial finish is GFTX500. Current version is "E", so GFTX500E gets you what Snappy is selling now. (Mine are older, chrome instead of black oxide. PM if interested.) Snappy calls this thing a "T50", but it isn't. Size-wise, it's approximately the same as a T47, I guess. But it's still round-peg-in-a-squared-hole, don't use a T47 on the GM-special strikers.
It may be that GM switched to using a real T47 in later years. I'm not sure.
Snap-On GFTX500E NOT rounded like Torx This is what GM uses on some strikers.
FTX47E "genuine Torx", rounded, not angular like GM-style
Last edited by Schurkey; Jul 10, 2020 at 08:41 PM.
