What is your most valuable 'made-it-myself' tool?

[Captain Obvious]

Yeah. the 72 carbs, even though they are mostly like the previous years, they do have their weird idiosyncrasies.  I find it neat to see some of the changes put into play on the 72 3-screw carbs that were clearly stepping stones to the flat tops they used the next year.

[Patcon]

CO's nubbie restoration service!!!

[Captain Obvious]

Haha!!! Yessir!! 

I think everyone can agree that a well formed nubbie is a thing of beauty!

[Namerow]

Really?  Are we out of contributions already?  I think that the old Atlantic Z-Car site could deliver at least a dozen ideas all on its own.  CO should be able match that. ZKars and Grannyknot, too.

[dutchzcarguy]

9 hours ago, Namerow said:

Are we out of contributions already?

But you were asking for our MOST valuable "made-it-myself" tool!  not all of them!  🙂 

[Namerow]

More of your most.

[Mark Maras]

I mentioned this a few weeks ago. I don't keep the components in my toolbox. To remove a pilot bushing, a slice of bread and a bolt slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the pilot bushing in the flywheel. A hammer and the bolt take the place of a grease gun and the bread acts like grease without the squeeze out.

[Mark Maras]

There's one more big plus using the bread method. No grease to clean out of the center of the flywheel.

[zKars]

The reason I haven’t chimed in with my “favorite” is there are just too many to choose from. They are all my children, I don’t dare declare any particular one my favorite without risking the wrath of the others.

I should lay them all out on the floor and take a group photo.

At least I’ll try to contribute more to the thread I started called “Cool Tool of the Day”. One a week on Sundays perhaps.

[Racer X]

22 minutes ago, Mark Maras said:

I mentioned this a few weeks ago. I don't keep the components in my toolbox. To remove a pilot bushing, a slice of bread and a bolt slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the pilot bushing in the flywheel. A hammer and the bolt take the place of a grease gun and the bread acts like grease without the squeeze out.

Doesn’t the pilot bushing go in the crankshaft hub?

[Jeff G 78]

2 hours ago, zKars said:

The reason I haven’t chimed in with my “favorite” is there are just too many to choose from. They are all my children, I don’t dare declare any particular one my favorite without risking the wrath of the others.

I should lay them all out on the floor and take a group photo.

At least I’ll try to contribute more to the thread I started called “Cool Tool of the Day”. One a week on Sundays perhaps.

There is no such thing as the best tool.  If I need to pound a nail in, a micrometer does me no good, yet for precision measuring, the hammer is just as useless.  Whenever I work on anything house or vehicle related, I tend to need every tool I own.  If I don't own the perfect tool for a job, I either make one, or I improvise and use what I have in the toolbox already.  If I have the time or think I'll ever need to do the same job again, I'll usually make a tool or jig.

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by Jeff G 78

[Mark Maras]

3 hours ago, Racer X said:

Doesn’t the pilot bushing go in the crankshaft hub?

 Yes it does. Not enough coffee to fully engage my memory that early.