The old fiber timing gear is toast. I thought a two-jaw puller was just the thing to remove it, but the jaws were too fat to fit between the gears and the housing. So I made my own jaws that fit.
Meanwhile, the steel gear I want to install was firmly stuck to a cam shaft. I didn't have a wrench that would reach the nut. I could have bent a 11/8" wrench to reach it, but I only had two. But I did have a half dozen 1" sockets. So I made this...
...and welded a short piece of pipe, and a 1" socket to it.
Nobody will ever accuse me of being a great welder, but the result was a tool that works for removing a timing gear nut.
Steve,an old Model A wrench will also fit the cam. Lord knows it isn't good for anything else..
Steve, your tool is way better than the factory tool made for the job. I found a T2223 wrench in a bunch of stuff at an antique store for 50c. It is severely cranked next to the cam nut, and so it cranks off the flats with even the slightest pressure. I solved that problem by making a sleeve with a washer welded on the end, and this holds the wrench on the nut when I put the timer nut on the cam to hold the sleeve.
If that makes any sense?
Steve,
How do you stay so clean? Or were these staged shots!?
Steve, I bet you'll never install another cam gear without first drilling and tapping for a couple of Jacking Screws? I know I won't.. I wished I someone would have told me it was a good idea before installed my bronze gear.
Clean? Moi? My mom once told me that when I was a toddler I hated getting dirty. But a couple of years later I came in the house filthy one day and told her, "You can't have any fun without getting a little dirty."
Gene, my replacement gear is made for a three-jaw puller.
But you're right. If it was solid I'd drill and tap a couple of holes.
May i ask how you cut the groove in that piece of metal? It looked like somebody filed it for hours and hours.
Good work Steve. I am known to occasionally manufacture, or at least cobble together, a tool for a job, but I certainly lack your skill and finesse.
Steve must look at pictures of Ron Patternson and his shop to get ideas.Both work the cleanist of anybody I have ever seen.I have been elbow deep in a B John deere this week and cant stay clean 2 minutes.
Steve, Good looking tool . Much better than the bent end wrench that I made which likes to slip off. I will make one when I get a min. I have a small Atlas milling machine for the slot so it will be a fun project. Thanks for posting. Joe
Kep, it was really three pieces. I started with a 2" piece of 1/2" x 11/4" flat stock. I cut it down to 11/8" (the width of the nut), clamped a pair of 3/8" x 3/4" pieces on either side, welded it all together, and ground the welds flat. Kind of a slow way to make the thing, but I'm bereft of machine tools.
Steve - Thank you for taking the time to post the films, pictures, and tools on the Forum for the rest of us.
Keith
i'm not sure what all the pencils are for when doing cam work?
Steve, Thank You so much for taking the time to post the pictures.. I watched the ride into town video a few times this morning too,Very well done. I will have to figure out the picture posting one of these days, I have some questions, but they will need pictures to describe I fear! Jim Derocher AuGres, Michigan
Clayton, the pencil story is that one falls out of the little pocket but three are tight enough to stay in.