Name that tool

for lubing kingpin bushings,as in when the zerk fittings are frozen and packed with crud.

 

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for lubing kingpin bushings,as in when the zerk fittings are frozen and packed with crud.


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Great guess.....but not correct!!

 

For some sort of u-joint?

 

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For some sort of u-joint?

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No, but thanks for tryin' !!

 

No more guesses???




The Master Deluxe late 30's Chevys had thin metal encased rear springs. This tool was used to grease the springs. There were two small holes (about 5/64"), each one half-way between the rear axle and the spring shackle, on the bottom of the spring casing. The tip of the tool (pic #2) was screwed into the hole and the tool tightened down to hold the tool to the spring. A grease gun was used on the zerk fitting to fill the casing full of grease. (sample inside view #3)

pic#2:


pic#3

 

Sounds like (leaf) spring bushings to me

I've got '53 Chevy P/U front leafs on the rear of my '34 panel, that's what made me think of spring bushings.

Dennis

 

NIPPLE CLAMP!! IIIIIIII LIKE IT!!

 

I knew that!

 

OK, here's my submission.

 

bushing reamer for harley rocker arms. I need one of those.

 

You're right and you're wrong...

 

ok so that might not be a reamer for harley rocker arms. but I still need one and it looks just like it. so the Q? is what is that reamer for? anyone else.

 

Reamer for kingpin bushings.

 

Looks like something a cop walking a beat in the "Tenderloin" area of Frisco would carry.

Gotta be something with a ball to ride in that worm screw on the left. We ain't seeing the whole setup. All I can think of is kingpins, piston rods or steering.

 

Some type of broach?

...or a lightsaber?

 

ajustable reamer.

 

Cadlights got it. It's a parallel reamer for late 50's Mopar kingpin bushings. That's not a worm screw Smokin Joe, it's a spring. You can adjust the diameter.

It was given to me by an old Desoto mechanic!

 

I got this at the swap meet cuz it looks like a hand held English Wheel. What can you tell me about it?

 

That "spring" had me. I did guess kingpins tho.

 

I'd show ya my tool but then you would think I was starting some kinda magazine.......you old timers know what I'm talking about.

 

Just keep your "tool" in your "toolbox"!

 

well??


CT.

 

The swap meet tool of Manyolcars looks like a tool to set hot patches on inner tubes. What's an inner tube?
Oh! I'm showing my age.

 

CT Fuzz is showing a valve lapping tool. Now someone tell me about the tool I posted.

 

bttt, we still have a tool to name. HERE!!!!!

 

manyolcars: I have seen tools like that (but a little bigger) advertised on ebay as being 1920's auto body shop "fender straighteners". I don't know if they were correct in their description, but if they were, it really is a kind of hand held english wheel.

 

I second what BigJim said.

I saw a cool setup at a swap meet that was in the original wooden case with different wheels and instructions. It was different to that, but the same principle.

I guess there would be nothing to stop you mounting it in a vice and using it the same way as a regular English wheel for small patch panels.

 

manyolcars: If there is a patent number on that tool post it and I'll see if I can find the patent application for it that would tell what it was.

 

Here's a link to a modern version of what I think your tool is. Like your tool, this new one is more for straightening dents out in fenders and panels and not for forming raw sheets of metal into compound curves:


http://www.cvproducts.com/products/specItem.aspx?prodID=3824&genCat=113