Nt-Eclipse-Dail
15+ Year Contributor
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- Oct 3, 2004
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Memphis,
Tennessee
Here are some pictures of some of the 'special' DSM tools I have made. All Total, These tools cost less than $50.00 and a little bit of time...
I spent @$10.00 on the barstock for the crank sprocket tool (easy as hell to cut this to fit with a cheap grinder and a good drill bit slightly larger than the bolt holes, Hint: make a pattern that fits the sprocket out of paper first and then transfer it to the barstock before grinding and drilling). We used an index card and some left over spray paint to transfer the shape/outline with.
I got about $1.00 in my brake/clutch bleeding set-up. The wife got the jar of spaghetti sauce cheap and we had left over fish tank tubing around...
Makes bleeding the brakes or the clutch very easy with no mess. 
I had to drop off @$5.00 for the 2x4's and $10.00 for the wheels for my 'ghetto/homemade' 4G63 engine dolly (the screws were laying around). The engine dolly came out good IMO. I hold the engine from the top with my hoist, disconnect the wires, hoses, mounts and such, drop the motor @ 2 or 3 inches, jack the front of the car up (while engine is sitting on dolly), and when the car is high enough, I just roll my motor out... When sitting in the dolly, the bottom of the oil pan is @ 3 or 4 inches off the ground. The dolly has little 'pedistals' that I put in certain spots that support the entire engine and tranny in the box pretty solid. Way too easy to work on the engine now! Just roll it where I want it.
The 'special' timing tools I had to spend a little $$$ on. The tensioner tool is a 'Miller' tool I got from Napa for $10.00 (+$5.00 for being a special order item), The 8mm x 1.25mm bolt (for holding the tension) cost $0.50cents and works like a champ. The head of the bolt fits well enough behind the metal timing cover plate thing back there that it is easy to turn with just fingers or a racheting wrench...
The little piece of wood I am holding up under the cam sprocket timing notches... I have two of these that I used to hold the sprockets in place while we did the timing belt. The little holes in the tool are to clamp them together with using bolts. I used some c-clamps I had around instead and it worked fine. I liked the wood cam gear clamps for the fact that, IF, you had some fresh painted cam gears or just did not want to scuff them up with a metal clamp, then I figured that these were the ticket. The wood is NOT going to beat up the metal. Also, When you drop that piece of wood on your valvecover while working, It does not doof your paint up.
If you got some cool pictures of some 'homemade' or fairly cheap but absolutely required DSM tools, then post them up! Help us ALL save a few dollars and a bunch of time!
The more $$$ I save in one place, is the more $$$ I can screw off on something else.
I spent @$10.00 on the barstock for the crank sprocket tool (easy as hell to cut this to fit with a cheap grinder and a good drill bit slightly larger than the bolt holes, Hint: make a pattern that fits the sprocket out of paper first and then transfer it to the barstock before grinding and drilling). We used an index card and some left over spray paint to transfer the shape/outline with.
I got about $1.00 in my brake/clutch bleeding set-up. The wife got the jar of spaghetti sauce cheap and we had left over fish tank tubing around...
Makes bleeding the brakes or the clutch very easy with no mess. I had to drop off @$5.00 for the 2x4's and $10.00 for the wheels for my 'ghetto/homemade' 4G63 engine dolly (the screws were laying around). The engine dolly came out good IMO. I hold the engine from the top with my hoist, disconnect the wires, hoses, mounts and such, drop the motor @ 2 or 3 inches, jack the front of the car up (while engine is sitting on dolly), and when the car is high enough, I just roll my motor out... When sitting in the dolly, the bottom of the oil pan is @ 3 or 4 inches off the ground. The dolly has little 'pedistals' that I put in certain spots that support the entire engine and tranny in the box pretty solid. Way too easy to work on the engine now! Just roll it where I want it.
The 'special' timing tools I had to spend a little $$$ on. The tensioner tool is a 'Miller' tool I got from Napa for $10.00 (+$5.00 for being a special order item), The 8mm x 1.25mm bolt (for holding the tension) cost $0.50cents and works like a champ. The head of the bolt fits well enough behind the metal timing cover plate thing back there that it is easy to turn with just fingers or a racheting wrench...
The little piece of wood I am holding up under the cam sprocket timing notches... I have two of these that I used to hold the sprockets in place while we did the timing belt. The little holes in the tool are to clamp them together with using bolts. I used some c-clamps I had around instead and it worked fine. I liked the wood cam gear clamps for the fact that, IF, you had some fresh painted cam gears or just did not want to scuff them up with a metal clamp, then I figured that these were the ticket. The wood is NOT going to beat up the metal. Also, When you drop that piece of wood on your valvecover while working, It does not doof your paint up.
If you got some cool pictures of some 'homemade' or fairly cheap but absolutely required DSM tools, then post them up! Help us ALL save a few dollars and a bunch of time!
The more $$$ I save in one place, is the more $$$ I can screw off on something else.
