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pinion shaft seal install tool
Everyone who knows me understands my obsession for properly installing seals. By always using an install tool and never just banging them in hoping not to damage them.
I come by my OTAD (obsessive tool acquisition disorder) honestly though. You see I literally started mechanicing before I was old enough to walk.
My dad would take me to the garage where he worked lay a furniture comforter on the floor and place me in the middle of it. For toys he would drop a few wrenches and small car parts on the blanket like a distributor or a carburetor for me to play with. I imagine that some huffy puffy woman from CPS would have a stroke to see someone treating an infant like that today.
I didn't start learning to be a Blacksmith or welder until I was 11 and bought my first Lathe when I was 14
Today in finishing up so work on my friend's Mack I had noticed the pinion shaft seal was beginning to seep a little so off comes the drive shaft and yolk so I could check the bearing for looseness then in goes a new seal and everything tightened up
TO install the seal I needed yet another seal install tool to be added to the dozens I already have which none of them were the correct size
As with many of these install tools I might only use them once or I might need to use them again and again Who knows.
For this one again I took the simplistic approach by locating a short piece of pipe near to the correct size, squared the ends on the lathe, then split a piece of 4" exhaust pipe and removed about 1 1/4" from it, rolled it into a tighter cylinder and pressed it inside of the heavier pipe then turned the protruding end to the correct length and tack welded a plat to the opposite end. Simple quick and easy
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Then just because I may need these tools again in a 100 years I sprayed a little paint on them to prevent them from being discarded as scrap iron After I forget what they were
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