picture of your homemade tools
- Thread starter bradj
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Build bikes to ride, not to look at!
Some bending dies I made for my hydraulic press. Great for bending up brackets, bar or anything too thick to bend in my sheetmetal brake. The big multi V die I did not make.
Bossing hammers. I even made the cutters to turn the radius for each size. I've only ever used the one.
Valve guide install tools. The countersink is set to install height on straight non shouldered valve guides. When the tool bottoms, you're there and they will all be the same on multi valve engines. the center is a close to valve size bolt with the head cut off as you can see on middle one
Head stands. so you are not scratching the shit out of the gasket surface or any other critical parts when servicing your cylinder heads. You don't need a lathe to cut the taper, a little skill with a grinder and weld to base
Not a motorcycle one, but for setting the injector pump timing on my VW diesel
Bossing hammers. I even made the cutters to turn the radius for each size. I've only ever used the one.
Valve guide install tools. The countersink is set to install height on straight non shouldered valve guides. When the tool bottoms, you're there and they will all be the same on multi valve engines. the center is a close to valve size bolt with the head cut off as you can see on middle one
Head stands. so you are not scratching the shit out of the gasket surface or any other critical parts when servicing your cylinder heads. You don't need a lathe to cut the taper, a little skill with a grinder and weld to base
Not a motorcycle one, but for setting the injector pump timing on my VW diesel
Walms
Been Around the Block
Not sure if this style retaining rings are common amongst other makes of bikes but Kawi has them with a vee notch instead of a hole... I didn't have any luck finding a standard pair big enough, also the clip tends to skew with the pin type pliers so I made my own. I ground a vee to contain the clip from skewing and it made my life much easier when re-assembling my tranny...
Cafe_to_go
Coast to Coast
I don't if this home made tool counts:
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Midwestgl500
It's not what you buy it's what you build!
Rofl! Cheers to that man. Now pass that shiz lol..
Walms
Been Around the Block
Why bother... 
Very handy tool though. It also can be used to confirm blow off pressure for your oil injector line check valves (with a gauge) I also have used it to confirm there is no oil in the crankcase after sitting all winter.
I used to have a functioning manual vacuum pump but i accidentally got brake fluid on the diaphragm and I'm too cheap to replace it.... Lol
Very handy tool though. It also can be used to confirm blow off pressure for your oil injector line check valves (with a gauge) I also have used it to confirm there is no oil in the crankcase after sitting all winter.
I used to have a functioning manual vacuum pump but i accidentally got brake fluid on the diaphragm and I'm too cheap to replace it.... Lol
