Homebuilt tools ?

What motorcycle shop specialty tools have you made ? I have made a spoke
truer/balancer , numerous pullers , bearing puller, seal puller, motorcycle
stand , and other numerous things.
How about you ?
Iowa883

 

Nicest and most usefull was a CAM locking tool for single cylinder Ducaties
which allowed yuo to lock the camshaft and undo the nut without the normal
locking of the camshaft by jamming it

 

A little, tiny spanner wrench that would fit inside a fairing and turn the
straight-knurled nut on the end of the speedo cable was kinda cool, but the
one I still use is a compression tester adapter with a 12 mm thread.

 

Two allen keys, about 600 mm long, 17 and 22 mm, to dismantle
Showa fork legs.
A rather special set of extended drill bit and screw extractor to
remove the threaded end of broken engine mounting bolt that sat
deep inside a hole.
PVC pipe fork seal mounting tool.

 

A set of 14" long Whitworth taps for working on old Brit iron
Countershaft socket for HD
4sp tranny bushing pushers.
Shock spring tool
Valve spring compressor
Etc.

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'79 FLHassle (Gone) '00 ZG1000 (Sarge)
'97 Ducati M750 (horse with no name, yet)
Pull 'mychain' to reply

 

Hear ye, here ye doth declare:

(I moved your reply to where it belongs; *after* the post it's
referring to.[*])

Here's one that even I could do:

http://www.geocities.com/wallstreet/1607/lift.html


-Don


[*] A: Because it interrupts the natural flow of communications.

Q: Why is top-posting a bad idea?

 

I remember seeing a BMW Airhead clutch alignment tool whittled out
of wood at a local shop.
They used to ask the cognoscenti "Whats this?"
The best answer was "A paleolithic clutch stub."
Worked OK and a hell of a lot cheaper than the factory model.

Pragmatist - "R75/5 Forever!"