Shop Made Tools

[mars-red]

And now for a little bonus round (I tried to put this in the last post, but hit the image limit)... a shop made tool that didn't have to be made, at all. For the timing, both cams need to be locked into place using another absurd, special tool. The cams have eccentric 4.5mm wide slots in the ends, so when piston 1 is at TDC, the bottoms of the slots are lined up with the top of the cylinder head. The special tool is just a funky shaped plate... funky shaped so that it can't accidentally fall into the head, and drilled so that it will clear valve cover studs that are present on the lesser versions of the VR6. For this application, a piece of 5/32" thick A2 tool steel plate I had kicking around the shop was just the ticket!

[RobWilson]

Here are a couple of face plate doodads to aid in work holding I knocked up a year or so back .

Keats style and normal angle plates .






Rob

[sasquatch]

Very nice work RobWilson!!

[thaiguzzi]

Max, aint RWD and OHV simple when things go wrong...
regards,
Mike (Luddite)...

[mattthemuppet]

I feel for you Max, i had a similar issue when i put my power steering pump pulley on backwards. Took me 4 hours to figure out what tool to make to get it off. I made the same cam tool for changing the timing belt on my Focus, plus a tool to hold the pulleys at the end of the cams to loosen and tighten them.

Impressive job to tackle though, i don't think i would have the guts out skill to take that much stuff out and put it back in the right place!

[plunger]

Rob cant you tell us more how you did this, do you have photos of the process of how you made the moulds

[RobWilson]

Hi Plunger

They are just fabricated from scrap steel plate , (weldment) and machined up on ye oldie shaper mainly . nowt to them really if you can weld .

[RobWilson]

Rob

[RobWilson]

Rob

[DICKEYBIRD]

Rob: Furnace-braze & media-blast or stick-weld/grind fillets & media blast or ??. Looks purr-fect.

[RobWilson]

Rob: stick-weld/grind fillets & media blast

Spot on Dickey and cooked at blast mark 5 for and hour or so until crispy, just so they be stress free lol





Rob

[ezduzit]

Beautiful job.

[sasquatch]

Thanks for the great pics Rob!! Impressive!!

[J Harp]

Great job, I thought they were machined from castings.

[thaiguzzi]

Very nice work too, and that rarest of all Boxford shapers; vertical auto feed AND swivel table... nice. A few months ago i made a bunch of Dickson copy toolholders on my Boxford from a length of flame cut steel that was just long enough on max stroke to get 5 holders out of one lump. The first lump i used normal tooling to cut and get below the flame cut edge, took forever. Next one i took an angle grinder to the edge, got below the rough stuff before moving onto normal shaper HSS tooling. Much quicker.