[DML] Re: Special tools

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This could become a very interesting thread. I am assuming we are
talking about tools that are only used on a Delorean. I made a
steering wheel puller, I have the drain adapter, I made up the rig for
the torsion bar adjustments, I bought out a dealer's inventory and got
all the special tools, I have watched Rob Grady fix doors, he uses a
short piece of metal cable to hold the door down while he sits on the
sill that I copied. I made up a wiring harness for a dwell meter to
use on the Lambda system. In general I only make special tools when I
can't find or adapt a regular tool for the job. I had a flapwheel but
I sold it. I don't have a clutch aligning tool yet.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> The comment about needing "special tools" for the PRV got me thinking. 
> There are some special tools the Renault produced (eg those for holding 
> up the cam sprockets when takina a head off), but there're definitely 
> some tools in my toolbox that live to do one job and one job only on a 
> DeLorean. Not necessarily unusual, but ones I've made an effort to buy 
> that aren't necessarily part of a standard cheap (metric) toolkit. Dave 
> Swingle's clutch bleeding tool is a great idea, and I'm going to make 
> one, but meanwhile I thought it'd be fun to hear from other people on 
> what they've bought to do some tasks on their DeLoreans. I'll start
with 
> some of mine:
> 
> 10, 11, 13, 17, 19mm strait ratchet spanners - absolutely fantastic 
> tools from Halfords which give you a strait-ended ring spanner where
the 
> ring ratchets inside its housing. They have a 5 degree "click" and all 
> those sizes have very specific jobs that a socket can't reach - for 
> example the bolts holding the top of the muffler heatshield on 




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