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Tcash
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Location: San Jose, California, USA
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 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:58 pm Post subject: Trans fill and drain plug tool. |
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| Millennium Falcon wrote: |
| If you can not find an actual 17mm socket to remove the trans fill and drain plug where you are find a bolt with a 17mm head and 2 nuts. Thread both nuts onto the bolt and jam them as tight as possible together by wrenching them hard into each other as close to the bolt head as you can. Now you have your 17mm jam-nut. Use your wrench on the inner nut to remove the plug. Most often this fix works. Good luck. |
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Tcash
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Location: San Jose, California, USA
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:49 pm Post subject: TDC Tool |
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| Bruce Amacker wrote: |
1. Take an old spark plug and grind the top chamfer from it.
2. Grind or cut the ground electrode off.
3. Use a punch and knock the porcelain out from the bottom.
4. Run a 3/8" NC tap through the empty spark plug shell.
5. Snug a 3/8" x 3" long bolt into the shell.
I had only about 10 minutes in this, and that included making the tool.
Have a great day!
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Find Exact TDC |
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lil-jinx
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Location: New Brunswick,Canada
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Aynthm
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| grandpa pete wrote: |
Two peices of pipe and 1 hour..1/2 inch nipple and 1 1/2 inch nipple
Not pretty but it works...remember to grind off galvanising before welding
Plumbing fitting to tap in seal..1 1/2 to 3 inch adapter
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Thanks for the great ideas! |
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Tcash
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Location: San Jose, California, USA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 3:03 pm Post subject: Pop top canvas installation tool |
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| GeorgeO. wrote: |
You need to make reference points on top portion that attaches to the top. You need to find the centers in between the canvas corners and the centers on the frames. Staple your corners first and then the centers. Before even do that. Get a small block of wood and mark off a measurement of no less than 5/8 to 1 1/2 inch. I believe I used 11/16 inch and used soap remnant to
mark in the first measure of fabric to be tack on to the frame. Then you find your centers on the canvas and the top frame. That is when you start to stapling and you must monitor how much slack you have between the corners and the centers. Take your time and if you make a mistake, take your time to correct it. You will find that the canvas will start to take the shape of the frame, and your job is half done. Next, find the centers on your top and on the bottom of the canvas where they mate. Be as accurate as possible and use the cheap orange handle Awls that are available from Harbor Freight to help you with the assembly. I hope this helps you and I hope you all the success.
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easy e
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Location: 1 hr north of Santa Barbara
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| Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:45 am Post subject: Hole locating tool |
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Hole locating tool (door panel, interior, etc...)
I made this handy tool by:
Getting a sawzall blade
Snapping the little finger off the blade end (end inserted in the sawzall)
Cutting a piece of thin clear plastic (2-liter bottle lengthwise)
Taping them together
Drilling hole in plastic by using sawzall blade's hole as template
Snipped head off a 6 or 8-penny nail (~3/32" long shaft) & put it through plastic, with a dab of epoxy.
Place panel... slide in tool & find existing hole... mark & drill.
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Tcash
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| Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| easy e wrote: |
Hole locating tool (door panel, interior, etc...)
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Is this to transfer the door card (panel) clip holes in the door to the door card.
Thank You
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easy e
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Sure... any hole transfer near an edge.
Size the diameter of the nail head piece... so that it'll fit in the desired hole. (Don't attempt to use nail diameter larger than existing hole diameter... do a preliminary pass/fail check)
Adjust tool size properties to suit individual application. The one I described, I used for door panel & interior panels where the existing hole was ~1/8" dia.
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SGKent 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:39 pm Post subject: VW 381/8 transmission tool |
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381/8
VW tool
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easy e
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SGKent
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I added a photo of the factory tool. Mine holds a magnetic base dial indicator. One can read 90 degrees off a bolt head or gear tooth.
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Tcash
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Location: San Jose, California, USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:08 am Post subject: Cylinder head CC kit. |
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Compression Ratio
Cylinder head CC kit.
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Robbie said he liked using an old CD cut to size as a flat plane that rests on the flycut of the head. This has a natural hole in the middle where we can add the measurable fluid, and the flatness of it makes the volume uniform. Adding a little bit of dish soap to the water helps the liquid even out.
Next step was to my local pharmacy where I purchased this comparatively giant syringe. Yes, I did have to explain it to the Pharmacist. This is a small town. Even Mavis knows that.
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raygreenwood
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| Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:53 am Post subject: |
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381/8
VW tool
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Nice SGKent!......I am in the process of building one similar to that for the upcoming rebuild of my 004 trans.....which has a couple of similarities to the 091.....that being one of them.
I linked your thread for techniques and reference in the thread i started last week.
The difference my tool will have is that it must do double duty on the 004. It will have a tab off the side of the bar to mount both a vertical dial indicator or a depth mic.....to be able to verify pinion to centerline position to the ring gear to be able to know what change a new bearing will produce so you can set the shim.
I hope to have the tool done by end of month and will post it here. Ray |
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Tcash
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Tcash
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Location: San Jose, California, USA
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:58 am Post subject: Tie rod end spins tool |
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Tie rod end spins while trying to tighten or loosen nut.
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twistedbug
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| Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 7:56 am Post subject: Rear stub axle nut tool |
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axle nut persuader
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Tcash
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HelmutofBuffalo
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| Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:27 am Post subject: Fender mounting nut tool jig |
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Vintage home made tool...My first job out of High School in 1974 was at a body shop at a VW dealership. Before we could work on cars we had to make some of our own tools. Besides heating and shaping used axles to be used as "beater bars" and cutting and welding a loop to old bumper brackets to be used for "frame pulling" We were required to make two of these little tools. When a beetle got in an accident and the fender tore out the nuts in the quarter panel, these were used to hold the new nut in place while welding it in.
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Tcash
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:24 am Post subject: Clutch lever releasing tool |
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http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=441587
BSQUARE wrote:
Releasing clutch cable tension with a pipe wrench
Mouth open toward the transmission, lower jaw in front of the lever, upper jaw behind, push the handle toward the rear of the car, adjust wingnut by hand. |
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Tom Powell
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:36 am Post subject: Re: Clutch lever releasing tool |
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That's not a pipe wrench. That is what my grandfather called a "Monkey Wrench". I inherited one and I believe it came as a part of the Ford Model A tool kit.
Aloha
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