Any special tools to make life easier?
#1
On all my motorcycles, I've always had to MacGyver a special tool or two to make life a lot easier on doing certain tasks.
Examples: I had to fabricate an extra long hex key for adjusting fuel screws and shorten a few to get valve covers off. Grind down a crescent wrench because it was too thick. Heat and bend a few wrenches to fit it really tight areas. Even 'specially bent' feeler guages for checking valves. The ultimate was a blind bearing puller made of bolts, PVC, about 60 washers and a sheet of steel.
Does anybody have unique or special made tools they use that would make us do-it-your-selfers lives easier?
I can give an example of something I'm going to have to make. On my wife's Hawkeye, the rear differential fill/inspect hole/bolt is in the most retarded spot. The only thing I can get to it with is a open end wrench. What sucks is that you can't rotate the wrench more than a few degrees at a turn. So it's turn, flip the wrench around, turn, flip, turn, over and over and over. What a PITA.
Anyway, we haven't had our new ATVs long enough yet, but I'm sure I'll be needing a few 'specialty' tools soon enough.
Show us what ya got!!
Examples: I had to fabricate an extra long hex key for adjusting fuel screws and shorten a few to get valve covers off. Grind down a crescent wrench because it was too thick. Heat and bend a few wrenches to fit it really tight areas. Even 'specially bent' feeler guages for checking valves. The ultimate was a blind bearing puller made of bolts, PVC, about 60 washers and a sheet of steel.
Does anybody have unique or special made tools they use that would make us do-it-your-selfers lives easier?
I can give an example of something I'm going to have to make. On my wife's Hawkeye, the rear differential fill/inspect hole/bolt is in the most retarded spot. The only thing I can get to it with is a open end wrench. What sucks is that you can't rotate the wrench more than a few degrees at a turn. So it's turn, flip the wrench around, turn, flip, turn, over and over and over. What a PITA.
Anyway, we haven't had our new ATVs long enough yet, but I'm sure I'll be needing a few 'specialty' tools soon enough.
Show us what ya got!!
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
toonces
Buying an ATV
17
Oct 16, 2019 12:11 PM
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)




