TIGHT TUBE BENDING Sometimes you may attempt to make a short tight bend in a piece of steel or copper tubing. If your tube bender will not make as tight of a radius as you might desire and know that if you try by hand it will kink, try this. By melting soft solder...

PNEUMATIC C-CLAMP This one is admittedly not totally engine related, but can definitely apply. Sometimes thinking outside the box and re-purposing a tool can be a great time and frustration saver. I came up with this one while doing brakes on the shop truck. After...

BEING ORGANIZED IS UP LIFTING I made these lift chains for the 3 most common sizes with nuts to keep them together. I welded the T-handle to the top of the bolts to speed up installation. Because of their low cost, I have them stored where ever I might need one around...

NUT CLAMP When you need to shorten or chamfer a bolt, it can be difficult to mount it in a lathe Chuck without boogering up the threads. An easy solution to this problem is to take a nut of the same size and pitch as your bolt and make a slot in it with a hacksaw or...

TWISTED DOWEL PULLER Removing stubborn open dowels is easy with a spiral bolt extractor. Just give it a light tap, twist and gently pull up. The force is evenly distributed all the way around and most of the time, the dowel can be reused. Dave Matton D and D Auto...

FAST AND FURIOUS FLYWHEEL FIX To all the fast and furious, turbo charged, side stepping clutch crowd, this one’s for you. Many Japanese flywheels are step cut. Often times when a clutch blows up, by the time you surface the face, the step is gone. To keep the factory...