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Show us your custom made shop tools. Got a thread on the mopar forum i am on, lots of cool ideas out there. Share em with the collective. I will start. I got 4 of these nice 5 gallon metal skydrol cans from work years ago. I painted waste oil on 3 of em with a stencil, then made a trough that attaches to the top with set screws. It has clips for my drain pan to hold sideways to drip once i pour my waste oil in. I used an old mopar 2.2 dipstick and tube as a level checker, and drilled holes in the stick every 1 gallon increment, so i can pull the stick and see how full it is before adding oil. I had it powdercoated at some small start up place and they were learning how to do it. Its was dirt cheap to get that done. I have other interesting shop tools i have made over the years.

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Show us your custom made shop tools. Therea a homemade tool thread on the mopar forum i am on, lots of cool ideas out there. Share em with the collective. I will start. I got 4 of these nice 5 gallon metal skydrol cans from work years ago. I painted waste oil on 3 of em with a stencil, then made a trough that attaches to the top with set screws. It has clips for my drain pan to hold sideways to drip once i pour my waste oil in. I used an old mopar 2.2 dipstick and tube as a level checker, and drilled holes in the stick every 1 gallon increment, so i can pull the stick and see how full it is before adding oil. I had it powdercoated at some small start up place and they were learning how to do it. Its was dirt cheap to get that done. I have other interesting shop tools i have made over the years.

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Matt

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How about this one. I needed a socket setup for doing brakes. First time i did these it was a pain in the ass with a giant allen key. I clipped a piece off it, and fit it into a 3/8" 3/8 drive short socket, tack welded it on, and viola instant caliper socket. I suppose i could have bought something like this however i needed it in a pinch and made what i needed

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Oil pump pickup installation tool (7/16" socket ground to fit over the elbow)

Cummins barring tool.
(4holes in a 1/4" plate welded to a 1/2"gas pipe thread saver)
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Built this awhile back since i work on all this stuff by myself and am pushing 50. I used to drag axles under the cars and do the barbell balance putting em in. Either i have gotten soft in my old age or have just gotten smarter, and better at fabricating. This is a rear axle dolley i built for use under leaf spring cars and trucks. I made it for teardown and rebuilding of 3rd members.

My kids ford 8.8 is currently on it for a rebuild. The cool thing about it, is if you mount your springs to it, you can roll it under your vehicle, rotate it up at the front to hook up the front spring eyes, then slip a jack under the pumpkin from the rear, and jack up the assembly and hook up the shackles. You can also use it the same way for removal with the springs attached, or just leave the springs in the vehicle and lower the axle onto the dolley. The heavy duty bearings allow you to rotate the axle to allow access to the gears for rebuilding it right where it sits.

It has a removable pinion support and 4 swivel castors for maneuverability as well. When weight is on it, it locks against the square tubing and will not move. I dont have a pic of it assembled after i painted it safety yellow, but this makes axle teardown and rebuilding, as well as removal and installation a piece of cake. Made with thin wall 2" square tubing. The castor plates and U shaped axle perches i made from 1/8" steel plate. The roller spacing and diameter of the U is such that it can handle axle tube diameters from 2.5" to 3.5

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Paint, and close up shot of the bearings i used for rollers. Dont mind the wing nut clecos holding the U shaped perches on i was using them to keep everything aligned before i welded it up.

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Its a 1998 explorer 31 spline 8.8. It came loaded up with 3.73s, disc brakes, and a locker in it. Gave $200 for it. i shortened long side tube to center the pumpkin, and will run 2 right side axles in it. Its got the same bolt pattern and stud thread as a vintage mopar 1/2" thread and 5 bolt 4.5" circle. With shortening it, it ends up only 1/16" wider than a stock 69 barracuda rear axle, which is what its going under

In the process of pressing on new bearings, also have to put new clutches in the limited slip. All told will have probably $500 in the whole thing including buying the rear. New bearings, seals, brakes, rotors, clutches, and a new chrome diff cover. When he moves past a mild built 318 and starts making real power, that stock ford limited slip isnt going to cut it anymore. Will need to put an Eaton tru trac in there. But for now the clutch kit, crosspin bolt, and S shaped tension spring was pretty inexpensive to buy new. Ditto for the used second right side axle. This thing is built like a GM 10 and or 12 bolt. As a matter of fact the axle bearings are the same part numbers too lol.

I am building a mopar 8&3/4 rear for my 67 barracuda (similar to a 9" ford with drop out 3rd member) and the cost was nuts. This axle had not been produced since 1972 so everything for it is expensive. It was easily triple the cost of that 8.8 to buy all the pieces and build. All that and its still a drum brake rear. But i have everything for it, so its going together. Had i known about the 8.8 trick when i was collecting the parts for mine, it woulda had the 8.8 too.
 
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