Tools you've made yourself.

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Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #15 – August 27, 2012, 01:01:10 PM

Mr Cassity hang tight they are on their WAY. Some cool breakers for testing are included as i promised

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #16 – August 27, 2012, 05:54:41 PM

Great!,,
I also use a mid trip dc breaker but for quickies i just use a circuit breaker.
its never "not" opened up before.

like i said, once upon a time i had to just "look for the smoke",, found it and replaced harness, this was on a Grand Am.

cant wait to get the ign switch mod done, the more i stare at it the more and more its like at the least two relays would be needed,, but thats a different topic for later.

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #17 – August 27, 2012, 08:58:18 PM

J Remember do not slave the ignition portion that runs the car!!!! If a relay fails you are STUCK. And they do fail from time to time. So look over the prints and do not isolate the running section of the switch. You know the section that feeds the ECM ETC!!! Thanks !!

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #18 – August 27, 2012, 10:25:22 PM

Got more tools to share, or are we hijacking the thread?

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #19 – August 27, 2012, 10:31:27 PM

sorry, this was rude of us.

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #20 – August 28, 2012, 01:21:59 AM

Quote from: TheFoeYouKnow;396735

You've got to be careful with those breakers, I knew a tech a couple years back who would use them to diag circuits. He'd put one in and follow the smoke, no joke. Dude was crazy.

The wire is useless once you let the smoke out of it...LOL I have used the circuit breaker to test for a short too, just got to be real careful.

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #21 – August 28, 2012, 02:11:00 AM

let me explain this tool
Found the blade in our garden when i was tilling back in the late 70's.
I made a handle for it and its been my corn knife ever since.

what the picture shows is a little off so this is called my brake line bleeder helper.
-tilt your steering wheel down
-pump up the brake
-put the blade on the brake pedal
-bow the knife until the handle is on the lower part of the steering wheel back side (at the 6 o'clock so to speak)
-now it should look like its dangerous : ) all bowed up
-go out to your zerk fitting and loosen, the corn knife straightens out and keeps presure on your pedal
-tighen brake line fitting, pump up pedal, insert the corn knife, go back out and bleed your brake.

basically its help when there is none.

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #22 – August 28, 2012, 02:35:35 AM

here is another angle of my spring tool in action.

notice the control arm bolt with a modified head... that is a must to do or you wont get the bolt out.,,just some advise i took from someone here a long time ago and its well worth it.

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #23 – August 28, 2012, 06:17:29 AM

OK foe simmer down!!!

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #24 – August 28, 2012, 04:01:27 PM

what is that stuff tom?

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #25 – August 28, 2012, 07:16:36 PM

Top photo from left is a front pump remover for a tranny. The second tool is a chevy steering wheel snap ring press. The third is a spanner puller for carrier bearings ETC!! The forth is a hydraulic line separator for GM slave cylinders. And the last tool is a water pump rotators for some gm timing belt adjusters. The bottom photo is a set of alignment jigs to drill LS motors for early alternator mounts. The long rod is an oil pump spinning or priming tool for fords. And the puller is for the 2.3 & 20 L ford and many other timing belt crank cog remover. I have all sorts of home made tools. Years back tools like this were not available to some degree. Thanks

Tools you've made yourself.

Reply #26 – August 29, 2012, 07:26:34 AM

Good stuff