Made a new tool

[Blue Ox]

Tool for holding flywheel to tighten damper bolt.

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Could be used to turn the engine too, but kinda impractical.

 

[Matt69olds]

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Because I’m cheap, I recycled the circuit board from a craftsman jump box to make a homemade battery tender.

The internal battery died, so I took it apart and removed the circuit board. I had to remove and rewire some of it to remove the 120volt inverter and air compressor functions.


I then mounted the circuit board into a school pencil box, mounted it to the wall, and made a long harness with a series 150 metri pack plug. My Olds has a matching plug permanently mounted under hood, I have another plug with alligator clips for other applications.

Since I save transformers from old appliances, I found one that was rated at 18 volts to power the homemade tender. It’s been in the garage for probably 10 years. Works great.

 

[Ricko1966]

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99 cents meat marinade injector and a piece of vacuum hose.You can tweak/check your vacuum advance numbers, EGR valve and lots of other vacuum servos. Someday I"m going to put the hose over a brake bleeder screw and pull on the plunger, just to see what happens.I I doubt the plunger is brake fluid compatable so I'd monitor plunger position and angle vs. Brake fluid, but at least in theory it would the cheapest 1 man bleeder ever.

 

[Ricko1966]

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Okay not a tool but still useful. Broken lock tabs on electrical connectors can be zip tied, pull the tie tight cut the tail off and the connector will stay together even with a broken lock tab.

 

[Ricko1966]

Buy stainless bolts in common sizes, grind flats on the end as pictured to collect chips. Stainless is harder than most anything you are going to chase threads on,

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but not as brittle as a tap, and won't break off in the hole, for th inexperienced. So real good inexpensive thread chasers

 

[Salty Crusty]

Keith, do you have any room in your toolbox for regular tools?

 

[Ricko1966]

Who's Keith?

 

[Dmack]

Keith Seymore. He added several posts to your thread.

 

[Ricko1966]

Aaah got it .I was hoping everyone would add something.

 

[Keith Seymore]

Yes - I have more than one toolbox!

I keep Dad's stuff separate, in the boxes he always kept it in. Otherwise I'd never be able to find it.

K

 

[Turbo4whl]

To be perfectly honest - I don't know what these three are used for:

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In the top picture the flat bar with the notch cut in the end looks like a clutch adjusting tool for a medium duty truck. Below that, the bar with the pins is a spanner wrench, most likely for some older steering boxes' end plug.

The bottom picture looks like torque converter tool. If that is the size of it, to hold the converter from falling out of the trans when it is being moved around.

 

[Keith Seymore]

Who's Keith?

https://www.gmsquarebody.com/threads/intro-from-an-old-assembly-plant-guy.13399/

K

 

[Keith Seymore]

Yes - I have more than one toolbox!

I keep Dad's stuff separate, in the boxes he always kept it in. Otherwise I'd never be able to find it.

K

Funny thing is I know exactly where everything would be two houses ago, but I can't find anything in my current set up.

K

 

[Keith Seymore]

In the top picture the flat bar with the notch cut in the end looks like a clutch adjusting tool for a medium duty truck. Below that, the bar with the pins is a spanner wrench, most likely for some older steering boxes' end plug.

The bottom picture looks like torque converter tool. If that is the size of it, to hold the converter from falling out of the trans when it is being moved around.

Good thoughts; thank you.

Clutch adjusting tool makes sense, but probably vintage race car (with HD clutch) rather than medium duty truck.

I may have led you astray on the bottom photo - it's smaller than the photo would lead you to believe, like maybe 12 inches end to end.

K

 

[Keith Seymore]

The bottom picture looks like torque converter tool. If that is the size of it, to hold the converter from falling out of the trans when it is being moved around.

Dad always raced 4 speeds back in the day, so I wonder if it was for some similar use but not for an auto trans.

K