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[260BC]

Might be an idea to keep all this stuff together so it's all currently accessible? Anyway here is my modest contribution, a home made wheel lifter for those awkward big wide wheels. Made from a kids bike fork and office chair caster wheels. Place the wheel on top, position it, line the wheel stud holes up and roll the wheel on.

[dave1600]

Home-made flycutting tool for pistons - the valve head has a bit of tool steel welded on and shaped into a cutter, set the adjustable stop on the valve stem to the correct height, attach an electric drill and away you go..










Jig for cutting and shutting a Datto L-series bellhousing onto a Nissan S15 6 speed gearbox. Jig holds the S15 bit of the bellhousing in place, L-series bit bolts to the back of spare block. It would work for any gearbox conversion - the jig locates in the main bearings of a spare block, and in the input shaft bearing hole in the bellhousing, with a flange perfectly square to the centreline of the jig bolted up to the bellhousing. This all ensures that he bellhousing is both square to, and inl ine with, the crank.

[ChrisS]

dave1600, Both are damn clever!!
Do you have a pig of the cutter?

[Do the safety dance.]

Nice work Dave1600.

I have a box full of spanners heated and bent with an oxy, does that count?

[dave1600]

Flycutter wasn't my idea - a fellow Datsun owner used something similar, I just modified it a little.

I can get a picture of the cutter, but its basically just a bit of tool steel about 3mm square and 10mm long, cut off a lathe tool with an angle grinder, brazed onto the underside of the valve head with a few mm hanging over, then sharpened to a cutting face on the bench grinder.

[rolin7]

I'll steal a few from the metal shaping forums

[mopar lover]

dave1600, Both are damn clever!!
Do you have a pig of the cutter?

I have seen similar but they cut grooves like teeth into the head of the valve to make the cutter.

[RVK 355]

Balancer puller, made it out of some P20 tool steel, running a M20 thread in the middle,

[2JLUX]

Simple yet very effective
Height adjustable with built in tig torch holder.

[Gassed250]

ghetto spec stud mount valve spring compressor, had to macgyver this up one night after finding out i had lent my other one to some cunt that dont like to return tools

This beast turned out to be easier to use than the proper one



diff housing jig

[RVK 355]

this is to hold the yok on a BW diff when torquing up the nut on the end of the pinion gear shaft.

[RVK 355]

Quick Cam shaft instalation tool i made today.

[kneelo]

my ghetto line boring rig... cost me $100 for some bright shaft and bearings vs $400 a machine shop wanted to put it on the horizontal boring machine or $2k a mobile line borer wanted.

[RVK 355]

my ghetto line boring rig... cost me $100 for some bright shaft and bearings vs $400 a machine shop wanted to put it on the horizontal boring machine or $2k a mobile line borer wanted.
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Love seeing this sort of stuff.

similar sorta set up to this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_kXgxS6Fk&feature=plcp

[MRMOPARMAN]

had to make a vice at trade school this week.

not as cool as alot of the other creations here, but it does the job