walterclark wrote:Yep...I have a box full of homemade "special" tools for the 020. Doesnt look like I need to make any more for the 02A.
That'd be nice, that's good right?
Here's the other tool I had made last night. I have too say it was quite creative, there were times I was like, what the hell am I doing???
But I went to the, I'm in the middle of nowhere and need to take a pinion nut off this bug and then tighten it to 160ft.#s to survive, place.
The socket for the pinion nut to remove and install the pinion shaft, hence the name....
Yea I could buy one but for $200.00 but I'd like to buy gears instead and they ain't cheep.
I got it off with a rounded chisel but to put it back on...
Here, in this picture. The nut and what used to be a nut now straighten out.
Just made a cut, heated it with a torch and unrolled it slowly working the heat just before the bend then using the vice to tighten it up(take out all the small bends).
You can see how the two nuts, heh, mesh. I was going to try, well I did, and just bent it around. it didn't work.
And I knew that but you know, had to try an all. The teeth would be the wrong pitch, not mesh, because of the increase in circumference, they became more coarse if you will.
So I just picked a pipe and bent it around that instead of risking the good nut. I don't have a picture but you get it.
Then with the curve reversed I cut it all in to little pieces!!!
Clamped them to the good nut.
With all the slices it was able to lay correct and mesh.
Tac Welded em to an old hum ring that was close to the diameter I needed.
I know it looks like shazzolie. deal with it.
OK so my wife took the camera and I just welded it all together filling all the gaps, welding the teeth inside and out.
Using and old VW cv-joint as my spacer, piece of flat stock and an old socket made the rest.
Painted it black to seal the deal.
It pasted the 'Now after all this work, will it do the job' test. Thank goodness it did and quite easily too. nice.