Get super repair kit for Skeeter

To do this quest right, you have to start at the beginning, which is when you first come to the Vault City outer courtyard, or at least before you pick up the reward from Curtis's mother for rescuing Joshua.

There is a child called Curtis to the east of the VC (Vault City courtyard area, near his family's tent. Inside the tent is his mother, who bemoans the loss of her husband, in custody in the slave detention area in VC. Don't go get Joshua just yet. First, listen to what Curtis as he talks to himself. Find his Mr. Nixon doll behind a wall to the north. Be nice to him. If you want to see what happens if you're not, just to see watch the minor black humor unfold, you'll want to save first. Listen to him again when he is reunited with the doll. You can get a Wrench out of this, the easy way. Wrenches are way harder to get than Tools; if you don't have one already, you can probably buy one at the inner city supply shops.

Go see Valerie in the inner VC area, and if Vic is in your party, father and daughter will have a tearful reunion. Not. Nope, Valerie is a tough cookie, and a tough businesswoman. But if you give her that Tool and a Wrench (quest Deliver pliers (tools) and a wrench to Valerie complete), she'll eventually give you a Super Tool Kit. A couple of days later. About long enough to go to Gecko and do the first part of the VC quest: Solve the Gecko powerplant problem, which is the Gecko quest: Solve the Gecko powerplant problem. Confusing, yes. You get the same named quest in both towns. If you want you can go see Skeeter while you're there, but it isn't necessary.

Back in VC, the shipment comes in, and as there are four extra Super Tool Kits, Valerie will let you have one for free. Take the Super Tool Kit to Gecko and speak to the ghoul in the northernmost building, just east of the wrecked cars. Skeeter gives you the Get super repair kit for Skeeter quest, you give him the Super Tool Kit, he gives you the Fuel Cell Controller, and when you get back to Den and give that to Smitty, he'll install it in the Highwayman, and sell you the car, all for $2000.

There are only three alternatives to getting the wrench from Curtis: wander around, south of Vault City, until you run into some Ghoul Crazies or a ghoul caravan, or get a wrench in Redding, or get one out of the Vault in the city, which requires you to be a citizen or walk past the guards in combat mode.