Old specialty tools ID help?
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The blue one is a tool for holding a damper on an engine like an M88/S38.
This tool can rest against the frame and allow a socket through the middle hole to remove a crankshaft nut that is torqued to over 350 ft lbs.
I have one for my M5 S38 engine. Not blue though.
Even with this tool it took a 3/4 drive and (IIRC) 34mm socket on a 24" long breaker bar with a 4ft piece of galvanized pipe over the end and some mighty big pulls with all my weight to get the nut loose.
This tool can rest against the frame and allow a socket through the middle hole to remove a crankshaft nut that is torqued to over 350 ft lbs.
I have one for my M5 S38 engine. Not blue though.
Even with this tool it took a 3/4 drive and (IIRC) 34mm socket on a 24" long breaker bar with a 4ft piece of galvanized pipe over the end and some mighty big pulls with all my weight to get the nut loose.
Yes I thought that's what it is also but the bolt holes seem too small. I have one for our M30's and it is a beast. And I needed the exact same leverage setup as you to break that nut off.
since i am in louisiana visiting family, i don't have my blue books. is the red handled piece the special tool to grab the timing chain to rotate the engine. maybe i'm wrong ... its been a while since i've looked at that pic.
The tool below the red handled thing is a flywheel lock. The two teeth sit in the flywheel and the peg in the block
The two pieces above the crank nut tool look like they fit on some kind of pilot bearing puller tool.
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Thanks for the replies.
Narrowing them down to a general use is one thing, the specifics are another more adventurous undertaking.
pretty sure the big blue one is specific for an '02 and other m10s, it has 4 pins on the other side.
the red handled one might be a windshield install tool
the little flywheel lock is also '02 and m10 specific.
As you can see from the next pic of SOME of the small tools, I have my hands full!
I am slowly narrowing them down with the
-pdf tool lists I have,
-the blue service books,
-a lot of googling,
some of them are very model specific. if i could get my eyes on some older tool number lists, for example, i have 4 or 5 'damper holders" all with specific pin layouts and different tool numbers.
For now, I am laying them 100+ of them all out in tool number order, Most of the tools are 70s and 80s and many have date stamps on them so that will help narrow the field.
its an interesting sort system old Hans Schubert used! which i am becoming more familiar with I ever dreamed.
I wish i still had the fiche reader and fiches! A lot of stuff never got moved over to the digital age.
Just for fun,notice the tool in the top left. Its tool number 2, a torque wrench with a degree indicator and some different fittings. very nice, but useless today. I wonder what tool number one was ;-)
Narrowing them down to a general use is one thing, the specifics are another more adventurous undertaking.
pretty sure the big blue one is specific for an '02 and other m10s, it has 4 pins on the other side.
the red handled one might be a windshield install tool
the little flywheel lock is also '02 and m10 specific.
As you can see from the next pic of SOME of the small tools, I have my hands full!
I am slowly narrowing them down with the
-pdf tool lists I have,
-the blue service books,
-a lot of googling,
some of them are very model specific. if i could get my eyes on some older tool number lists, for example, i have 4 or 5 'damper holders" all with specific pin layouts and different tool numbers.
For now, I am laying them 100+ of them all out in tool number order, Most of the tools are 70s and 80s and many have date stamps on them so that will help narrow the field.
its an interesting sort system old Hans Schubert used! which i am becoming more familiar with I ever dreamed.
I wish i still had the fiche reader and fiches! A lot of stuff never got moved over to the digital age.
Just for fun,notice the tool in the top left. Its tool number 2, a torque wrench with a degree indicator and some different fittings. very nice, but useless today. I wonder what tool number one was ;-)
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