Please list only tools you have used and have worked perfectly as intended; Also these tools have to be currently reproduced or offered from a current vendor. Please include the vendors part #.
I would like to start with:
Lang's spindle bushing driver 2713SPL The first attempt at this tool wasn't good but their current 1/2" hardened version is great.
Fun Projects Cushion spring wrench CPT-1 This wrench allows you to apply or remove pressure to the cushion spring
Snyder's band nut tool T-3419-T This tool holds the nut and washer in a cage and prevents it from falling in to the transmission while installing new bands or springs.
Bob Scherzer's engine front plate alignment tool. Anything else is a waste of time!
Ron the Coilman
Langs clutch drum puller 5Z-314
I don't know if it's a reproduction of an old time tool, but the rear axle sleeve puller (Lang's #2509SP) is a pretty handy item.
While we are on the subject of tools.
It would be nice if someone would make a repo of the Stevens drive shaft sleeve puller.
I know it always comes down to making a profit to make it feasible.
I do think its great that there are a few good tools avaliable for the T enthusist.
Thanks and very appreciated.
St. Louis magneto tester. Anything else is a waste of time.
Ron the Coilman
Fun projects Strobo-Spark is an excellent tool.
Although the tool is not being produced the instructions to build your own spoke press provided at no cost by Fun Projects makes a very effective tool that works very well.
Langs has a reproduction flywheel and magnito gap gauge that saves a ton of time when adjusting the field coil / magnet gap. Part no. KRW 1
Fun Projects also produces a magnito output tester that works very well. It is a repro of one made by "St. Louis Electric Works".
It’s not a repro tool as such, but one of the best tools in my arsenal for the T is a heavy duty Buffalo type forged 3-jaw puller. The one with the ¾” fine thread jack-screw and looks a bit like an Erector set with both the inside pull lip and the outside pull lip on the forged arms and rated maybe 4T or so.
I’m too cheap to invest in a whole set by size and over the years I’ve made up some new different length links to do ‘this and that’ on the T where the stock links just don’t work or get in the way. Add to that some home-made j-hooks worked up on the bench grinder and drill press and I’ve also made a neck down cap to go over the jack screw end for getting on smaller stuff.
I even used it as a rear wheel puller for almost 30 years with a rubber band attachment (whatever was left over from newspapers )to hold things together until there was tension on the later wheel hubs with the small undercut thread relief and never buggered a thread. Today some of the new upper end ones have a spring ring to do the same thing. I finally put a catalog offering puller on a Christmas list and Santa brought one, just last year! Almost too pretty to use!
Here’s a pic of something like my 3-jaw.
Bob Scherzer's mag gap setting tool is a great buy. I bought one about 5 years ago,and it has been loaned out more than it is here. I have yet to use it myself! John Kuehn, I have an extra Stevens driveshaft sleeve puller if you'd care to make me an offer on it. I used to sell the split bushing drivers,but when I offered it to one of the suppliers,he stole the idea and started making them on his own. I don't make them anymore. I still make the repro TT jack handles.
Danged tablets! those question marks are apostrophies....sorry! They actually passed 'preview'
Has anybody used the spindle bushing reamers sold by langs? Are they a good quality tool?
Thanks
Stephen Heatherly
i have used the spindle bushing reamer with some success. However it is much easier and a better job to take them spindles to the local machine shop and have them ream them on their equipment. Best $4 you can spend.
used properly, the spindle bushing reamer works just fine. However, it reams to .500 and if you are using the correctly made early kingpins for your early car, then you still will have work to do, as they are made to the correct size (.504 I believe), and since your spindle bushings will be .500-.501, they will still need to be opened some.
The Fun Projects cushion spring adjuster is excellent - as is the Strobospark.
I made a spoke stretcher from threaded bar and shaped wood which works - yes I know that inserting U washers is frowned upon in some quarters, but I only inserted (and glued) about 3 in one wheel, and these were only 0.015" thick, but it's fine some 10 years and 15000 miles later.
A rear hub puller is essential, as is the axle sleeve remover.
The lifting eye which screws into a spark plug hole (No 3) works fine, even if it does look a bit 'slender'.
A spare starter ring gear is excellent for checking and equalising magneto plate heights.
Not exactly a reproduction tool, but very handy nevertheless.
1-7/8 X 16 die and stock for re threading Model T exhaust manifolds.
Ron the Coilman
Another very handy reproduction tool.
Engine installation U joint alignment tool.
Just curious Ron, is anything else just a waste of time?
Sorry Ron. Have a great day and thanks for showing the U-Joint tool. I wasn't aware they were being offered.
Here is another excellent reproduction tool. Anything else is a waste of time.
Used for setting magnet heights on flywheels. Saves a lot of time.
Ron the Coilman
Jerry
I am a strong believer in William Pioch's (Ford genius tool designer's) adage: "If you need a tool and don't buy it, soon you will find out you have paid for it and do not have it".
Ron the Coilman
Ron, I do believe that Bob Scherzer also made that tool and this one, a favorite of yours, which works fine.
I have one of each, they are all essential!