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Pretty simple and effective. Nicely done.
 

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After rolling it out on the ground, you can clamp one end in a vice and the other end in a pair of vice grips. Then bend the vice grip end at a right angle, the hit the vice grip with a mini sledge. Makes it as straight as an arrow.

I've heard that straightening brake line in this manner can create untraceable harmonic vibrations in the driveline/suspension.
 

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Sliding glass door rollers?

Yes sir, my hardware store called the patio door rollers, but the same thing.
 

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Nice work.
I will have to remember this method for when I need to make things straight.
 

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Nice work.
I will have to remember this method for when I need to make things straight.

Thanks...I just couldn't see spending 100 bucks or more on something that doesn't get used all the time, and it is only for one thing.
 

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10.00 brake pressure bleeder. The pressure part is a 6.00 Dollar General plant sprayer. The clear tubing came from the hardware store..The pressure cap is a piece of scrap aluminum plate with a hole drilled and tapped for a barbed fitting.I glued a piece of rubber to the other side and clamp it down with strap iron, all thread and old exhaust springs.
 

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A bearing separator, some all thread a hyraulic jack. I pull crank gears, bearing races etc. Put the jaws together and it's a little press
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2 tools here. A piece of steel rod I had laying around and a piece of scrap strap is brake pedal depressor.The second is a piece of plate with a hole with a socket through it and welded.You put your breaker bar in the socket and put pressure on it smack the plate clockwise or counter clockwise with a hammer, for that really tight stuff.
 
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A bearing separator, some all thread a hyraulic jack. I pull crank gears, bearing races etc. Put the jaws together and it's a little press
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I used something similar to pull the front pump outta my th350!
 

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A piece of square tubing a scrap of flat plate, and a tire machine duckhead.Because the junk mount bars they send with the manual tire machines won't pull a tire on and I don't like prying them on. IT'S SOMEBODY ELSES TURN!!
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A 13 piece bearing race and seal installer, that you can take off nuts and bolts too. Okay I don't really have those, or any harbor frieght sockets.but I do use my sockets for driving in seals and races I just don't have a pic of my sockets handy.

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Okay, not mine. I have a press and my bearing separator press, But I like this probably will make one for ball joints and U joints. Yes I have the big c clamp service press but think this will be more useful.
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