Homemade tools.

[satman72]

Have any of you fine folks made any homemade tools?

Post pics and descriptions.

 

[coronet340]

Hammer/hoe/rat smasher

 

[krowbar]

hammer/hoe/rat smasher

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lol

 

[YY1]

I call your attention to the "behind the motor mount freeze plug press"
(now in version 2.0)-

 

[EV2 GTX]

Now that's using the ol' brain pan. Well done YY1!

 

[Meep-Meep]

Oh yeah, all the time! Having a mill, two lathes and welding equipment it's easier at times to just make a tool than search where to find one. Need to move a Stewart Warner industrial balancing machine around the shop?? No problem. Just make a gizmo that attaches to the rails at both ends and use the SW supplied crank handle to raise the instrument off the floor using the jacking screw.

 

[Lowhound]

I could have used that freeze plug tool at 1 time. But my biggest problem was getting the old 1 out. It just had a small hole in it, it hadn't pushed out.

 

[YY1]

I smacked mine with a big screwdriver/hammer, and of course it went into the block instead of turning so I could pull it out.
That particular water jacket is nearly flat behind the plug.
You should have seen me using my fingers and a bent coat hanger to push/pull it down to the next plug hole!!

I'm almost ready to try again.

As you can see it got the plug started, but I ran out of threads on the pusher bolt, so it didn't fully seat.
I also broke the weld on the nut (probably because of the thread issue- and the poor weld),
and I bent the backing plate.

I've since bought a longer bolt, re-welded the nut (with gas this time) , and installed a bracing washer on the plate.
Might get up there tonight, might not.

I also learned that there needs to be some way to center the captive washer in the plug.
Right now I'm leaving the angle iron to backing plate bolts loose and using the slop to center it.

 

[kiwigtx]

I made this about 15 years ago, when you couldn't buy such a tool;

For removal and installation of upper ball joints.

 

[satman72]

Good stuff! Keep posting.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Fixture for holding cylinder heads while installing seats and guides.




Oil pump drive bushing removal tool (in car). This is a junk countershaft from an 833 that I modified to fit a 1/4" pipe tap on one end and wrench flats on the other. Just a big tap holder with guide. The idea is pack the tap flutes with grease to hold the chips and once the threads are cut use a slide hammer to pop the bushing out. The pipe tap was a good fit for that hole size without drilling. Worked like a charm!

 

[Photon440]

I made a tool that everyone at work was raving about, for the easy installation of camel door rollers on plug door box cars, but that probably wouldn't mean much to this forum...

 

[Gpuller]

I made a tool that everyone at work was raving about, for the easy installation of camel door rollers on plug door box cars, but that probably wouldn't mean much to this forum...

Camel toe what????

 

[Lenny Arsenault]

I made a torsion bar removal tool to beat on without using a lot of effort.

 

[69rtse4spd]

I made a tool that everyone at work was raving about, for the easy installation of camel door rollers on plug door box cars, but that probably wouldn't mean much to this forum...

Rail Road cars.