Show us your home made tools

[Brigsy]

Show us your home made tools that work and cheap to make ?

Made a bead roller yesterday out of some mole grips, exhaust clamp and washer to swage some alloy boost hoses for a R5gtt im working on. Total cost £0

Works great miles better than anticipated. Excuse the s**t welding all i had is a knackered mig, done the job though.

Test piece

One of a few pipes done

 

[Typhoon]

Following this thread, great idea! I have nothing to offer tho!

 

[Crayola]

My pikey slide hammer and you can see to the left there’s a shocker and spring compressor. I’ve made stupid amounts of tools for stupid s**t jobs[emoji23] Mainly pulling tools because f**k paying £30 for a bearing or a drum puller when I can make something out of some plate

 

[Brigsy]

Thats a decent slide hammer to be fair. The last one i made was basically a weight and threaded bar, i think ill make one the same next time i need one

 

[Crayola]

Yeah I put 2 nuts on just in case I went full r****d strength and slid the 5kg weight off the end[emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Djw John]

Clio fuel pump removal 'tool' ?

 

[Crayola]

Clio fuel pump removal 'tool' [emoji23]

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Big flathead and a hammer for that[emoji6][emoji23]

 

[Djw John]

Big flathead and a hammer for that[emoji6][emoji23]

They were the first tools I tried but it was gonna wreck it and I needed the ring to survive.

 

[Crayola]

They were the first tools I tried but it was gonna wreck it and I needed the ring to survive.

Do they act like a massive set of pliers?[emoji23]

 

[Djw John]

Do they act like a massive set of pliers?[emoji23]

Yup, exactly that! Worked an absolute treat as well

 

[bloke]

should see the state of my cam locking tools ?

 

[dann2707]

Not really a tool at all but something I had to "modify" to help me change the wheel bearings today.

One tasty bead of weld around the outer race and then press it out with the hydraulic press. Worked amazingly well

 

[Crayola]

Not really a tool at all but something I had to "modify" to help me change the wheel bearings today.

One tasty bead of weld around the outer race and then press it out with the hydraulic press. Worked amazingly well

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That a Clio bearing?

If so a Corsa C from wheel bearing outer casing fits perfectly in the middle on the Centre race. Makes life so much easier having a shelf full of old bearing casings etc lol

 

[dann2707]

No it's not matey but thanks for the heads up, that will come. In handy

 

[Brigsy]

Clio fuel pump removal 'tool' ?

Grand idea that, i need to change the fuel pump in the mrs meg 225 soon will knock something similar up?

Not really a tool at all but something I had to "modify" to help me change the wheel bearings today.

One tasty bead of weld around the outer race and then press it out with the hydraulic press. Worked amazingly well

Bead of weld works awesome when removing the outer casing on a bearing..banjo it out with a chisel when hot

 

[dann2707]

Grand idea that, i need to change the fuel pump in the mrs meg 225 soon will knock something similar up?



Bead of weld works awesome when removing the outer casing on a bearing..banjo it out with a chisel when hot

I got it nice and hot then put it in the press. It would have gone without but I really like my face and teeth

 

[loggyboy]

Ive tried the swage/bead tool, but it failed as i think I was using too thick tube.
I did make a tube notcher. More of a bodge than a tool though. Worked ok though.

 

[M.C..]

I made this a few years ago to change the inner tie rods, made for 1/2 drive so they could be torqued up correctly.

 

[Brigsy]

Superb welding @M.C.. that looks better than the tool i bought that has grips inside to remove inner tie rod

 

[M.C..]

Superb welding @M.C.. that looks better than the tool i bought that has grips inside to remove inner tie rod

Thanks, it works really well.
Unfortunately my new job don’t like you doing foreigners so can’t make anything now.

 

[DaveL485]

Made this out of my scrap bin, for locking up the crank pulley on my Volvo S60 D5 when doing the cambelt.

Service interval is 96,000 miles so i've used it once when I made it, got another 64k to go before its needed again lol!