soggy_feet
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2009
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- 713
Tonight I made a tool to remove the bearing carrier retaining ring on my Merc MC-1 lower.
Original plan was to just copy the design of all the other ones I see on the market, but then I got looking the four posts that engage the retaining ring to turn it, and then got looking at how old and corroded my drive was, and I totally pictured myself smearing all the dogs off the ring rendering it totally stuck in place.
My design engages every single location possible, and since I KNEW it was gonna fight me, I set it up to use with a 1/2" drive breaker bar.
Everything fits together perfectly, but I worry that if I heave any harder on the breaker bar, I'm gonna lift the house and the foundation right out of the ground before this damn ring breaks loose.
Other tool above that is the shift shaft bushing removal tool I made a week or so ago. Also on the beefy side, that is set up to be used with an impact gun with a 7/8" socket, but I don't have an impact at the house right now, and that bushing is also firmly in place...
Original plan was to just copy the design of all the other ones I see on the market, but then I got looking the four posts that engage the retaining ring to turn it, and then got looking at how old and corroded my drive was, and I totally pictured myself smearing all the dogs off the ring rendering it totally stuck in place.
My design engages every single location possible, and since I KNEW it was gonna fight me, I set it up to use with a 1/2" drive breaker bar.
Everything fits together perfectly, but I worry that if I heave any harder on the breaker bar, I'm gonna lift the house and the foundation right out of the ground before this damn ring breaks loose.
Other tool above that is the shift shaft bushing removal tool I made a week or so ago. Also on the beefy side, that is set up to be used with an impact gun with a 7/8" socket, but I don't have an impact at the house right now, and that bushing is also firmly in place...
