Yeah I was wondering if any u guys made your own tools for working on your car. Pictures and ideas would be great.

 

My mechanic has the tools to pull the flywheel that he made. Maybe other things also .

 

I have special tools to allow transmission removal without spilling a drop of fluid. one for an NA 5sp, and one for NA AT or t2 5sp. Theyre just front yokes of old driveshafts cut off and used as plugs.

I pull the PS pump with the engine when I do a swap, and I have developed a tool to allow this, again, with no fluid loss. IT is an old sparkplug boot with a bolt in one end, and the other end gets placed on the reservoir outlet on the PS pump quickly after having removed the rubber hose that went to it.

I also made my own rotary engine stand head out of channel iron, didnt feel like paying the $100 that theyre sold for.

I have certain wrenches in sizes like 14mm and 10mm that are custom bent to certain odd angles, to allow me to more easily get at certain parts of the car.

I have others, but those are the ones I can think of right off the top of my head.

 

I've taken wide flatheads to a grinder and bent them to make fastner pullers.



Same goes with making tiny screwdriver when I can't find the really small set while working on a car and it's getting late.

 

My two favorite tools:
Bent tip long nose pliers - for working on vac lines without breaking the plastic nipples.
Stubby ratchet handle - more swing in tight places & less chance of overtorqueing.

Home made tool: A small flat steel bar, with a sharpened V groove in the end - for popping the plastic barbed trim fasteners.
O - Yea: Bailing wire, nylon strapping, duct tape, Etc..

 

Two plates. One drilled for the wheel bolt pattern and a hole in center for the axle stub. The other plate bolted to the first with 12" long bolts. This lets me use a bottle jack to press the axle out of rear hub.

Rob

 

That's an awesome idea. I coulda used one of those and kept myself from mushrooming my axle (I had to grind it down and it's ok now)

As for me.. I made a ghetto flywheel nut breaker-looser-thingey. I used it when the engine was on the ground.

Basically got a 4-foot long piece of angle iron, drilled two holes in it so that I could use flywheel bolts to bolt the "tool" to the flywheel. Bolted it on, laid that sucker on the ground (with the engine on the ground also), took a 52mm 3/4" socket attached to a 18" sliding wrench (kinda hard to describe, basically an 18" long bar with nubs on each side to prevent the actual socket attachment from coming off). Put that sucker on the flywheel nut and STOMP on the nut. After one or two tries it loosens right up, I was amazed. Worked twice so far.

 

I have made 1/4" x 3" steel bar stock and 20" long 3/8" thread stock into transmission rebuild pullers & presses.

 

I had to make 2 tools when i pulled my transmission. one was a puller to pull the flywheel off. and the other to was similar to the racing beat tool to get the flywheel nut off. couldent have dont it with out it. also i ground down a 14mm socket so that it makes more contact on the bolt (very top tranny one thats hard as hell to get too) if you notice on most soccets that there is a little rounded off area on the inside....it almost striped that top one out.

 

I have a small chisel machined down to the size of the housing o-ring grooves, very effective for cleaning out the carbon.gunk/old o-rings

 

I have ground a few wrenches down for my car.....mostly just to gain access to the front diff to subframe mount.....I can take my center section out and have in reinstalled pretty quickly...without having to drop the whole rear subframe.....The two studs are replaced with long grade 8 bolts and the diff mounts are drilled to fit the grade 8 bolts......I did this when in the middle of a TII drivetrain upgrade and didn't want to remove the whole subframe.....makes it easier right?? Yeah.

 

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Hmm I dont know that ive intentionally invented any tools, however, when I was installing my rb exhaust I had 2 12in extensions and a crows foot on the end of a ratchet to get that stupid bottom bolt off of the stock precat.

 

Is Duct Tape considered a tool?

I've made/modified lots of tools with that godsend.

 

I use a mixture of duct tape, electrical tape, and postal service tape...

 

I just went out and counted the custom bent wrenches - 106 and counting.

Fatorite tools to customize tools - torch, grinder and BFH.

My favorite tool - BFH!

 

When rebuilt my engine I forgot to put the crush washer behind the main pulley bolt. I had to pull the main pulley bolt and i didn't have a flywheel stop or anything to keep the engine from rotating. I had an old accessory belt so I put it around the pulley, twisted it into a coil so it was tight up against the pulley, then I looped the other end around the the stud on the front cover where the ps and A/C bracket used to mount. It was tight enough to keep the engine from turning.

Don't know if thats considered making my own tool, but it was an improvision.

 

sears!!!!! anything you need and more!!! heheh

 

Flat-head jewelers screwdrivers set works wonders.


-Ted

 

^ the jewwlers screwdrivers dont hold an edge as well as a chisel

 

My hands.

 

lol

 

Man, I dunno how hard you're pressing on them to clean the water jacket o-ring grooves, but if you're damaging them (the jewelers screwdrivers) you're pretty damn strong!

I typically use WD-40 or some kinda solvent or cleaner to help loosen the crud in there.  I don't like to use anything too hard, and the chisel would probably get me into a lot of trouble.


-Ted

 

That was the method last year, now I use this:

 

nice