Home made tools

[Tinker]

It's a drum puller. Similar to a krw.

 

[Junknshit]

I thought it was much smaller than it is, I guess. That's what I get for guessing. Thanks a bunch,

 

[c-gor]

This tool is used to remove the Oil Pressure Sending unit from a flathead V-8. 3/8" extension fits into the square hole and the "C" device fits over the sending unit and captures the square above the threaded portion of the unit.

 

[Tinker]

I thought it was much smaller than it is, I guess. That's what I get for guessing. Thanks a bunch,

Yes it does look smaller in the pictures.

 

[JM 35 Sedan]

Here's a nice tool I bought that was made by Bill Wzorek for removing oil pressure sending units. Even had an attached brass plate with the previous Fordbarn logo. This tool is so well made that it could take a direct bomb hit and still be functional . Bill was making and selling these as a fund raiser for Shelly's Fordbarn. I'm not sure if he is still making and selling these, but you could always send him a pm to find out.

 

[Tinker]

Few year old thread, but I thought I'd bring this back up to the top.

 

[donald1950]

I really like Tinkers belt adjusting tool. simple but efficient.....

 

[Lanny]

I like Franks tool made for "Stretching a Dollar"

Re: Home made tools

 

[Bolts]

Thanks for starting this thread Tinker.

 

[Tim Ayers]

I'm leaving on vacation. When I return, I'll post some pictures of the tools I've made.

 

[mikebishop]

I ported flathead blocks on a waist-high workbench for nearly ten years before I figured out a better scheme – a two-axis gimbaled fixture that allows me to position a block exactly as I want it, and quickly alter its position, in small or large increments, in almost any two-axis global orientation. Designed to fit a conventional engine stand, it also fits nicely into a socket welded to a steel post in my porting area. In the X axis, the fixture indexes at 45-degree increments for a full 360 degrees of rotation, and in the Y axis it indexes infinitely through all 360 degrees of rotation. The big plus for this type of fixture is that tool application is always in the most-effective direction, which is generally in the 3 to 9 o’clock positions. As a consequence, tool control is excellent, critical cuts and surface finishes are optimum, and fatigue is greatly reduced.

I could have built the fixture with chamfered and welded corners, but Art Morrison Enterprises was starting to do neat hot rod and racecar frames with their new mandrel-bending gear for rectangular tubing, so I figured why not?

A full-size Ford/Mercury block is positioned in the fixture with the camshaft centerline lined up with the Y axis axles. This corresponds with the longitudinal CG – or nearly so; the block can be held with very little drag on the drag bolt and is easily rotated when the drag is loosened. A V-8-60 block sits just a taste higher to feel neutral.

A year ago a pal asked me if I would port a set of Chrysler Hemi heads for a vintage dragster he was restoring. Sure, I just needed a couple of angle plates to bolt to the end plates in the fixture that a head could sit on and be secured with bolts.

Suddenly, several aluminum cylinder heads from Yamaha SR500 singles showed up, needing porting, of course. (These motors are popular and successful in AMA dirt-track racing.) This time a simple bridge of 1/8-inch stainless, with a 45-degree break on each long edge to stiffen it, neatly supports a head.

Finally – or maybe not – Vern Tardel showed up with a big ’49 Lincoln flathead block destined for another vintage dragster. Longer extension plates supported the big block which is secured with bolts in the main-bearing saddles on the ends. This monster sits lower in the fixture; lined up on the camshaft centerline, as I originally did it, it was an unwieldy pendulum. Dropping it about an inch did the trick and it rotates as easily as the smaller blocks.

 

[Tinker]

Just to be clear I did not make that one. Just appreciate the thought and skill. All thanks go to Vergil, the creator of the tool. Not me.

I really like Tinkers belt adjusting tool. simple but efficient.....

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[Tim Ayers]

Awesome, Mike. Very cool.

 

[tubman]

Here is a tool I made to put flathead valve assemblies together. I couple of pieces of angle iron and a piece of pipe. Looks bad, works good.

 

[Cecil/WV]

Frank, I'm guessing that's a paperweight for the dollar bills you are making LOL!!
I know it is actually a neat tool made to remove an oil pressure sending unit that is screwed into the back of a block


Hoop, I give up What is your tool creation used for
Ah ha, now I know what it is based on the latest pictures you have added. That's slick!


Here are a few more pictures of tools I have made that could not be posted above.....

I never knew you made the ball pein hammer!!

 

[Zeke...PA]

Hey JM that's that Black & Deckerism showing through. Zeke

 

[Mart]

Excellent job on the porting fixture Mike.

Mart.

 

[mikebishop]

Excellent job on the porting fixture Mike.

Mart.

Thanks, Mart. I have an idea for harvesting even more goodness from the fixture -- a set of adapters that will allow me to position a crankshaft in the fixture to carve away about a dozen pounds and streamline and polish it to reduce windage. I love the result of the work . . .

. . . but after doing one in this primitive fashion . . .

. . . I made a simple fixture from rectangular tubing that was a bit better, but it still danced around on the bench. The porting fixture could turn the arduous crank-carving chore into a relatively pleasant task. The changes available in the X axis would be even more beneficial than they are for porting a block.

Mike

 

[TerryOH]

Spring shackle removing and installing tools

 

[TerryOH]

tools for removing transmission pilot bearing & pinion perload adjustment, torque check and hand rotation tool