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Homemade Tools!

repowerguy

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I was mistaken, it is 5/8" thick and 4" wide and 34" long . I put a tape rule along it so you can see the hole spacing.
Come on guys, let's see your stuff too, I know you are holding out in us. IMG_0457.JPG
 

auen1

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Anyone modified a floor jack like this?

I'm getting ready to cut up my brand new one, to build one like it.
Also planning to put small pneumatic tires on the front legs.

I like the idea of higher lift, more stability and better mobility.

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hosspuller

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It's been a few years, for more great ideas to percolate....Let's see your current brain storm...;)

Here's one of mine, though vintage... Filter wrench, made of bolt & # 50 chain. Used with socket, extensions and flex link. No stretchy slack like the web strap wrenches. No filter has ever resisted although removed filter looked like the loser with a Python.

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kshansen

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Here's one of mine, though vintage... Filter wrench, made of bolt & # 50 chain. Used with socket, extensions and flex link. No stretchy slack like the web strap wrenches. No filter has ever resisted although removed filter looked like the loser with a Python.

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Just looking at that gives me the idea that next time you get hold of a timing chain out of an old V-8 use that to get a little more width? And maybe a little lower profile to slip in close areas?
 

mekanik

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1. 855 Cummins accessory drive pulley installer
2. Accessory drive pulley seal remover and installer
3. 855 Cummins front crank seal puller and installer
4. Cummins B 5.9 and C 8.3 rear seal puller and installer
5. The aluminum blocks cover the oil passages to the Jake Brake on an 855 Cummins so I could run the engine without the Jake housings.
6. Dial indicator holder for setting injectors on Cummins KT 1150 engines.
7. Dial indicator holder for setting injectors on Cummins 855 engines
8. Spring loaded timing pin for 3406 Cat flywheel Hsg.
9. Injector height setting tool for 3406E engines
10. timing pin for cam gear on Cummins B and C engines
11. 2 3/4" wrench for MVT cylinder on Cummins 475HP 855.
12. Mag base for pointer for degree wheel.
The round tool below the degree wheel is a injector hold down tool for Cat 3406B engines.
The long tool at the top is a slide hammer
There are two bushing installers and bushings for the accessory drive on an 855 Cummins. Sometimes the bushing would come loose
in the cover so I would put a straight knurl on the outside of the bushing to hold it in place. Better than replacing the cover.
The round tool above the degree wheel is tapered to stretch the front crank seal over the shaft on a Cummins 855.
The tool to the right of the degree wheel is for measuring cylinder liner protrusion.
 

John C.

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I have a couple that I made that are used my my Goldwing motorcycle.

The first is used to dismantle the front forks.

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The second is an adapter for my floor jack to remove the bags and trunk in one piece when I have to repair or replace the rear tire.

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DIYDAVE

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Just looking at that gives me the idea that next time you get hold of a timing chain out of an old V-8 use that to get a little more width? And maybe a little lower profile to slip in close areas?
V8 timing chains are the perfect size fer makin steps, to get in the bed of these blasted too high new pickups. I used a pair on an old jacked up '80 chevy C-30, but you at least had a steel step bumper, to bolt to. Chain steps were like a stirrup, and would flex out of the way, iffn you hit something tall, out in the woods!:D
 
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