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  • 31 Mar 2020 3:07 AM
    Message # 8869116

    I open a topic for special tools that is good to have, please contribute with tips and pictures of what you have made or acquired.

    A couple of tools that can be good to make, is dedicated pullers for the mag gear, both crankshaft gears and clutch hub.

    The cam cover screws is made a bit special, the slit is machine sawed so a common wedge blade screwdriver slips easily. The blade tip needs to be ground parallel and rounded. Good fitting and full width, that's important, so a dedicated screwdriver for that is needed in the tool roll. 

    The end cap on the oil pump can be a bear to loosen, it is LEFT HAND threaded and the slit is also machine sawed so a flat, rounded, full width, perfect fitting, very hard steel blade needs to be ground for it with a place for a spanner for turning and sturdy handle for pushing in order to avoid slipping. A bit of heat can help loosen it up.

    Special spanners for the intake and exhaust nut is good to have in the tool roll, they might have to be retightened on the road.

    Key spanners for the rear sprocket and drum brake, and steering head adjustment, instead of hammer and chisel is giving pro vibes to the surroundings, so does a pin key spanner for the big nut behind the sprocket on the gearbox. The thin bearing behind that nut should be replaced often, really at every chance you have because it is losing specifications rapidly.

    A tin plate spanner is needed to get in between and adjust the rear wheel bearing on those with loose ball bearings. The bearing play has to be readjusted every time the wheel axle is loosened.

    What more... the funny looking (overengineered) tool in the picture right corner is a keeper for the clutch hub, when torquing the center nut. In the middle of the handle is a simple clutch hub puller. 2 holes for long screws that threads in the clutch hub and in center a push screw. For those hubs without threaded holes, a clamp might have to be made.

    The blue handle spanner is a homemade spanner for the inner big nut in the gearbox for the clutch basket. I recommend to buy that spanner readymade from KIWI, Greer or Stark, maybe Walkers have it, as I found it difficult to make the jaws stabile enough in that cramped area, they tend to open and slip. The distance tool prevents the spanner from slipping.

    And close to the clutch basket, a pin key spanner for the large gearbox outer nut.

    I tried that oil filter tool to keep hold of the crankshaft gear when tightening the nut, but it wasn't successful. I cut a ring of a steel tube that fitted loosely outside the gear and inserted in the gear teeth 5 broken drill bits, that I then spot welded to the ring on both sides. Then I welded that ring to the other end of the clutch tool.

    My most important helper is Locktite. Locktite on every single threaded part all over the motorcycle with just a few exceptions. Medium and strong and penetrating and thread seal for the intake threads. Lipstick locktite is the best thing since cold beer to have in the sidebags. 


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    Last modified: 29 Apr 2020 3:36 AM | Carl-Erik Renquist
  • 01 Apr 2020 2:55 PM
    Reply # 8872665 on 8869116

    When you replace the clutch plates, it is difficult to get the nuts on the pressure plate because of the pushing springs. In addition, you will need those springs also at the same time, in the right place to get it. If you have an old clutch cover, then it is simply to make a tool that the bolts with the springs are a lot easier to place. Cut the worm out, and make sure there is a nut that is temporarily put on the clutch shaft and the job will be a lot easier.

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  • 02 Apr 2020 6:32 AM
    Reply # 8873971 on 8869116
    Tim Raindle (Administrator)

    Kiwi Mike will sell a clutch compression tool for $ 29.99. 

    https://www.kiwiindian.com/index.php/checkout/tool-clutch-compression

    Might be easier than cutting up a 101 primary cover ? Good trick tho if you have a totally unuseable one.

    Last modified: 02 Apr 2020 9:54 AM | Tim Raindle (Administrator)
  • 02 Apr 2020 10:59 AM
    Reply # 8874523 on 8869116
    Tim Raindle (Administrator)

    Very handy when you damage the thread on a valve cover and need to change it withouht taking cylinder off, Model A type valve spring compressor.

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    Last modified: 02 Apr 2020 11:00 AM | Tim Raindle (Administrator)
  • 03 Apr 2020 4:48 AM
    Reply # 8876465 on 8869116

    Thanks for all those interesting ideas and suggestions !!Could do with the Model A valve spring compressor at the mo !!

    You could make use of these specialist Harley Davidson tools !! So long as you are more careful on your 101 !!!! good luck , Ken

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    Last modified: 03 Apr 2020 5:05 AM | Ken Lee
  • 03 Apr 2020 12:07 PM
    Reply # 8877330 on 8869116

    What a great idea for a topic Charlie, thanks!

    Here's some I made, not pretty but they all worked according to plan!

    1) spoke wrenches, with only two flats on the spoke nipples I needed a wrench to turn the spokes an extra few degrees in order to get the straight torque wrench on again.

    2) pinion gear puller, truly an ugly tool but I made it with pieces at hand

    3) valve guide puller, also ugly but it worked well!


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    Last modified: 03 Apr 2020 12:11 PM | Harry Roberts
  • 03 Apr 2020 3:24 PM
    Reply # 8877812 on 8873971
    Tim Raindle wrote:

    Kiwi Mike will sell a clutch compression tool for $ 29.99. 

    https://www.kiwiindian.com/index.php/checkout/tool-clutch-compression

    Might be easier than cutting up a 101 primary cover ? Good trick tho if you have a totally unuseable one.


    Do you have a picture Tim ?
  • 04 Apr 2020 12:11 PM
    Reply # 8878828 on 8869116
    Tim Raindle (Administrator)

    Not of that one , Robert. Here's one of George using his homemade clutch tool.

    Also a link to Greers one.

    https://www.jerrygreersengineering.com/images/products/pdfs/23T269.pdf


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  • 05 Apr 2020 5:41 PM
    Reply # 8880355 on 8869116
    John Lindberg (Administrator)

    This Harbor Freight 9/16 combination wrench had a thin enough rim on the 12-point box end wrench to allow me to remove that bastard bolt on my magneto.  Didn't even have to grind the wrench.

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  • 05 Apr 2020 5:50 PM
    Reply # 8880374 on 8869116

    I had the necessity to remove the clutch today and made a compressor from bits laying in the garage ! not 101 but just the same - 1923 Chief . I'm sure we all have bits laying around and can make good use of , cast offs etc , Ken

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