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a/c orfice puller, you can use drywall screws for that
This brought to mind an idea for a new thread - what substitutions do we use in working on our cars when we replace some expensive or hard-to-find tool with something common/cheap that is meant for some other use? The above is an example, using big screwdrivers/pry bars/BFHes to separate ball joints would be another.
For removing the crank pulley, you can usually use two pry bars on opposite ends, and pry against the webbed part of the front cover. Just be careful to work it out nicely, dont just pry and break through the aluminum front cover!
I've done this numerous times, and its much faster and easier than renting a pulley puller. My Nissan tech friend of 15 years taught me that one
Just as a time saver I used a deep-well socket and a big flat blade screwdriver to pull my water temp senders. Worked fine and it only took a couple min. I didn;t even have to remove anything to get to them.
-Josh
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if you're having trouble getting the allen screws loose on your TB (most likely) with your tiny ass allen wrenches, just take the smallest deep socket that will fit (like an 8mm) over it, put an extension in the end of the socket, and you have an instant cheater bar for your allen wrenches.
the BFH fixes all. i have a plastic covered deadblow, works great and does not mar/mushroom everything.
if you have room for those mega cheater bars on a breaker bar or ratchet, you also have room for the "earthquake". i picked it up at harbor freight for $79.99 and its the best money i have spent. the thing cranks out something like 725 ft-lbs.
Pop an intercooler hose off on the highway.. and you don't have a screwdriver? Find a Dime (10 cents... not a bag of dope:p) and use it to retighten your clamp. Of course it won't hold boost too well, but it'll seal enough to get you home.
best thing to tighten hoseclamps are those $1 screwdrivers with the 4 different tips in them (with the green handle). remove the tips, and the big side fits the hoseclamp perfectly. you can get them so tight with this you can break the clamp, so be careful. MUCH better than the hit or miss, slip-a-thon flathead method.
heres one next time you break a head stud off in the head, get a nut and weld it to the broken stud and then get a wrench on it to turn it out, the welding heats it up also so it's killing two birds with one stone.
Can't get that bolt started with a rachet and a extension because the bolt keeps falling out of the socket? You can't get your hand
close enough to start the bolt with your fingers? Take some bubble gum and stick on the head of the bolt so it will stick to the socket.
To loosen Crank bolt, Get a 1/2 breaker bar. Hook the breaker bar and socket to the crank bolt. Try to get the breaker bar close to the ground. Depending on the way the engine turns over, this will decide where you position the breaker bar.
Get everything hooked up and tap the starter. You will use the starter to turn over the engine and use the ground to hold the bar in place while you turn the car over to break the bolt free. Sounds crazy but I have used this method several times.
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91 Classic w/ a few bolt ons.
one of the best tools i ever bought was a $2 foot long steel pipe from home depot. Use it as a breaker bar and a hammer Comes in handy for getting lug nuts off when using the stock lug nut wrench. Slides over just about anything so that you can get the extra leverage.
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'96 SE-R.... boost, brakes, suspension, etc... sold
'05 Evo
'05 CBR 600RR
I have various sizes of Home Depot pipe for ratchet handles. For serious stuff I use a section of roll bar tubing on the end of the Craftsman breaker bar. You guys don't remember taking a VW front hub nut loose. Best substitute; a 9/16" (14 mm) socket into the filler from the five gallon dump can. Seats perfectly into the filler neck of the Nissan. Even locks in place.
