I am normally pretty up and up on what tools do what, but this one baffles me, buddy just sent this over to me. So figured I would go to the best place I know for help.. SO what is it? Note the Oz mark at the top reading 16 to 24... Any help is greatly appreciated, we have no clue what it is or is for.
For checking the amount of pressure to move something greater than 16 oz and less than 24 oz. Possibly drag on piston rings on a worn or new , I doubt, bore?
Might be for checking wheel bearing resistance. I seem to remember being taught to use a fish scale when I went through Auto tech in College way back when.
It looks like part of the scale that was used to check power steering gears for centering. It had a claw that attached to the steering wheel and you turned it with the front wheels off the ground.
I wonder if it screwed into an existing hole, or into an adapter. Did Ford have tool books like Kent Moore?
I looked up the base number on the tool, 9976, and it falls in fuel, oil, and gauges. I'm guessing it has something to do with one of those.
I think it says FoMoCo on it so it probably has something to do with Fords! Oh! I posted this before I saw the second picture! Duh! Bones
I think Lloyd might be close. Don't some older parts require a certain amount of oil to be used on ***embly?
Why that there is a flux capacitor calibrator. If not I have no idea what it is. Neat looking however.
Google to the rescue. I found a reference on FTE and to adjust the “depopper” on the factory dual? Carbs to keep from popping when off the throttle.
I'm surprised you don't know ... That period HD TRUCK GAS ENGINES were governed and this was used to adjust to eliminate those pesky little backfires you would hear (and split a muffler).
This has a similar look. HRP To obtain a good seat when Gas adjusting valve is closed, the seat sometimes needs to be polished to remove pits, dirt scratches, etc. This tool and guide provides a mating, aligned surface that can be spun against the seat with polishing compound on it. The tool is made by soldering two needles together back to back. The end that will go into the guide and provide the polishing surface needs to have its threads removed to enable it to be spun continuously with a drill. Using an old GAV housing, I've removed the spring to let the tool spin more freely. Some people also cut down both ends of the housing.
I just tossed one of those carburetors. I pulled it out of the trash at a swap meet to see what made it tick. I missed that part though.
Only Ford we had was a ‘54 1/2 cab over, 2.5 ton, when I was a kid. If it had a governor on it, I didn’t know. I do know the gas tractors we had did!
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