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REF: Tools - Sub-003
Crankshaft / Flywheel Tools
Installing / Removing Timken Bearings
Pulling the Race
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| Cut the head off of a C-clamp and welded on locking tabs. Huck of tubing from the scrap-bin sliced lengthwise, slotted for the locking tabs with a cut and ground 1“ Hilti bolt washer welded to one end. Another hunk of refuse tubing with set-screws as a sleeve to hold it all together. |
| Flywheel Race Puller, 3) |
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Flywheel / Crankshaft Balancing - Truing
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| Flywheel Balancing Stands 4) | ||
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| Flywheel Balancing Tools 5) | ||
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| * A piece of 4” steel channel as a base. * Two automobile connecting rods are then bolted to holes drilled in it at the right distance apart to suit whatever flywheels are being worked on. * A threaded insert was machined up so a half-inch or so bolt could be threaded threaded through, with locknuts to hold it in position. * The ends of the bolts are machined to a point same as a lathe center (60 degrees maybe?). * A magnetic dial gauge is stuck to the base to suit the job at hand. * This rig has been used to do countless numbers of 45 Flathead bottom ends, J models and big Brit singles like the Matchless wheels in the pic. * The alignment of the two center bolts is not super critical (they just provide the two points). The flywheels and shafts are a straight line between them. |
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| Flywheel / Crankshaft Balancing and Truing Stand 6) | ||
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| Here is a pair of adaptors to swing big fat Harley 7) flywheels in a small lathe like a 4.5“ swing Myford etc. |
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| Here is another way to true flywheels in a small Myford lathe that has only a 4.5” swing that won't fit Harley flywheels. Two offset pieces made from some flat half-inch thick bar and some half-inch round bar. |
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| Truing flywheels on center in a lathe via offset jigs 8) | ||
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Crankshaft / Flywheel Installation
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| Homemade tool to pull the flywheels back into the left case, pressing the bearing on and pull the wheel in at the same time.9) | ||
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photos by saddlebagrail of the XLFORUM http://xlforum.net/forums/showthread.php?t=395586&page=13
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photo by TreyButcher of the XLFORUM http://xlforum.net/forums/showthread.php?t=395586&page=14
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photos by saddlebagrail of the XLFORUM http://xlforum.net/forums/showthread.php?t=395586&page=12
