So what tool did u invent
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So what tool did u invent
Yeah I was wondering if any u guys made your own tools for working on your car. Pictures and ideas would be great.
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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 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.
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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.
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.
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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..
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..
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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.
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Originally posted by Rob500
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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Originally posted by version13
Is Duct Tape considered a tool?
I've made/modified lots of tools with that godsend.
Is Duct Tape considered a tool?
I've made/modified lots of tools with that godsend.
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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!
Fatorite tools to customize tools - torch, grinder and BFH.
My favorite tool - BFH!
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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.
Don't know if thats considered making my own tool, but it was an improvision.
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Originally posted by banzaitoyota
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 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
-Ted
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Originally posted by banzaitoyota
^ the jewwlers screwdrivers dont hold an edge as well as a chisel
^ the jewwlers screwdrivers dont hold an edge as well as a chisel
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