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12-13-2011, 10:17 PM | #1 |
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Was looking around the two forums (hamb and barn) and see Vergil of the hamb posted this nifty little tool for tightening the belt.
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I like that. Yes: I made a clamp for getting the rod caps on with out dragging on the studs and a little do-hickey to that screws into the drain plug hole in trans case and allows you to mount it in a vise while working on it.
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I was always hoping a thread would start here on tools or gadgets that members have made to work on the early Fords. I have made a number of tools while working on my cars. Some of these tools could have been purchased but I enjoy designing and making tools when I have the time. I'll post pictures when I can get back to my computer.
OK, here are some of the tools I have made......I have more but can only post 15 pictures at one time here by this method.
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Not really anything you can't buy, but I made my own early Ford spring spreader, that by using a combination of inserts, brackets and different length threaded sections, will do all the springs that I have needed to so far, including reversed eye ones. If I ever have to do a Model A spring I'll have to come up with a joggled centre piece, though
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The tool for tightening the belt is nice but only works on 8ba and later blocks. The wire looms are in the way for earlier engines.
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I guess you'll recon' this one
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For the screws that hold the detents on a floor shift trans top...
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Tool for removing the oil pressure sender. Works great.
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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.....
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I like that a lot better than a slide hammer tool that I made years ago to do the same thing.
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About the dollar bill . I I learned many years ago that a bill is exactly six inches so when you take a photo for reference or need a quick ruler use a bill IE three bills equal 18" . Works great.
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Nice tools guys, very ingenious.
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Powervalve circuit blowerouter tool and hand-held spot facing tools for gasket surfaces on jet wells and fuel inlet.
Whoopee...
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distributor tester,tried for ages to buy an old ford one ,gave up and made one.
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Now that is impressive.
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"distributor tester,tried for ages to buy an old ford one ,gave up and made one.
Lawrie" ... or you could have done it the hard way.
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Some really good tools in here, some of which I can see that I am going to have a use for, hopefully in the near future. I do have a question about the one in post #9 by ventilo from Germany, what is it? Does it by chance have something to do with valves, or valve and guide assemblies? Or could it have something to do with straight axles? Or am I just so far off that I need to start at the very beginning again? Probably, Huh? I can see that the sleeves slide on and hold it together, or that it slides into the sleeves. I can't tell from the pic what size it is, although the rock looks like small peagravel to me.
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It's a drum puller. Similar to a krw.
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I thought it was much smaller than it is, I guess. That's what I get for guessing. Thanks a bunch,
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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.
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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.
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I really like Tinkers belt adjusting tool. simple but efficient.....
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I like Franks tool made for "Stretching a Dollar"
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Thanks for starting this thread Tinker.
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I'm leaving on vacation. When I return, I'll post some pictures of the tools I've made.
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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. |
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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.
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Awesome, Mike. Very cool.
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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.
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Hey JM that's that Black & Deckerism showing through. Zeke
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Excellent job on the porting fixture Mike.
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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 |
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Spring shackle removing and installing tools
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tools for removing transmission pilot bearing & pinion perload adjustment, torque check and hand rotation tool
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Necessity. The mother of all inventions!
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This is a great thread. I am not a machinist but a woodworker and have
found that I can turn oak or maple to make some tools. I have made a cam bearing installer, grease seal tool and use wood to support items in the press whenever possible. Wood is easy on metal parts.
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Here is a link you can spend some time on.
Have your printer ready. Bruce http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/t...ipment.235784/
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Here's one I made to form a patch for a rusted out section in my 48 coupe floor board. It consists of several pieces of sawed off 3/8 thick hot rolled steel strips that are assembled to form a pocket and a bent piece of 3/4 hot rolled steel bar used to form the shape.
I placed a piece of 18 GA steel sheet on the tool and heated it up red in the center then pounded the forming rod with a hammer to create the finished part.
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Another spring spreader made from a very big turnbuckle.
Works on rear spring also. The C-Clamps are a safety precaution. |
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Mike, That "lightened and smoothed" crankshaft is a work of art. You must have the patience of a toothache to do that. QUESTIONS:
1. How do you determine how much material to remove from each counterweight? 2. Do you have to re-balance the crankshaft, pistons, rods? 3. Does your procedure weaken the rotating assembly in any way? Thanks, 19Fordy |
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I found the turnbuckle in a pile of scrap metal in1975 while checking out an old power plant in south FL. I cut and lengthened the center part and made it into a spring spreader.
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This old thread is worth a bump.
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I agree......and it would be nice to see more input from folks who have come up with usefull tools, but have not posted them here yet.
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To further what John said, there are some very good machinists and guys who can produce beautiful work here ... others of us kind of cobble up prototypes that work and just leave it at that.
Show us your work ... warts and all. KRW did not fill all the needs for special tools.
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Hi Everyone. Here's a thread on removing hubcaps. Member ford38v8 posted these pics of his slide-hammer. I thought it was pretty cool and deserved to be a part of this conversation. I hope they don't mind me using their pics.
https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showt...ghlight=hubcap
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Rod vise I made from an old C clamp. Really helps to prevent caps from dragging over the threads.
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Some good ones guys..
Wheel alignment. the other one was handy for cleaning out the inside of the diff knocking in seals etc.
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I’m not a fan of forcing a motor to turn but if you had one that does, this works good to turn it over......Mark
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Great thread!
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Talkwrench. I'd be interested in seeing the wheel alighnment piece in action if you have any pics of that.
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Terranova heres a link if you go down and you'll see one similar. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...ontend.710599/
Jack up frontend , turn wheels and mark a line with chalk all the way round in the middle. then use a fine scribe, turn wheel again to mark a fine line. Push car back a few yards then roll forward, set handbrake so it wont roll on you ..safety you know.. Slide the tool to the back of the tyre, set the pointers exactly on the scribed lines. bring to front of tyre carefully place the pointer on one side on the scribed line and see how much its over hanging the scribed line on the other side, its only small like the 1/16 or 1/8 " adjust the drag link to achieve. Now re-do it all over again to check.
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After futzing around for over an hour last night trying to free my windshield wiper arm from the post, I decided to fab up my own little puller. Worked like a champ.
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I guess you could call it a “tool”. I needed to build a frame, so I built the frame table 1st.
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Here are my home made tools for doing the valves on my flathead. The pickle fork is made of a recycled 3/8 bar with the fork made out of a piece of an old lawn mover blade and welded on. I tried a mild steel fork but it bent too easily. Lawn mower blades are good strong steel.
The seat grinding stone is shaped with a diamond dresser. The shaft is a 5/16" bolt and the shaft rides in a broken valve guide with a bushing inside to fit the shaft snugly. I modified a visegrip by welding on forked ends so you can squeeze the spring for disassembly and assembly. In the last picture I'm grinding a valve on a wood lathe with a steady rest. You can see a small 45 degree gauge for measuring the angle in the background if you look closely. |
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Anyone know the angle of the exhaust ports if I wanted to make a side mount engine stand adapter?
I don’t have the engine out yet and the adapters I see on the web look like about 45deg. I tried to post this question earlier, but put in the wrong place.... |
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it is 45deg. happy motoring
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45 deg. it is.
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He is a picture of a transmission stand I made.
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Finished these up today. Engine adapter and a few lifting eyes. Hope my engine isn’t on the floor in the morning.
Next up is the plate for jacking up the head, a transmission rebuild stand, the gizmo for compressing the spring on the shifter tower, and front and rear leaf spring spreaders. |
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Re: Home made tools
Not sure IF its a tool necessarily but my take on Distributor alignment pins. Holds the gasket in place, allows for easy connection of the vacuum advance line, then an easy way to align the key way.
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10-27-2021, 09:37 PM | #75 |
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Location: Columbia, Misssouri
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Re: Home made tools
'bout time for some more tools isn't it?
Here's a slide hammer a friend made from a Model A brake rod, small needle nosed vise grips, and a stack of washers that he welded together. I think he told me that the threads on the brake rod and vise grips are the same; it just screwed right in there. You adjust the vise grip opening by turning the brake rod. It's probably the coolest tool in my entire shop and hangs right over my main bench.
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10-27-2021, 11:38 PM | #76 |
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Re: Home made tools
Very excellent there Mike!
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10-27-2021, 11:56 PM | #77 |
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Re: Home made tools
Everyone needs one of these on hand…
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04-28-2022, 11:53 PM | #78 |
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Re: Home made tools
Dissassembly tool for flatheads seen at tool show a couple years ago.
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