Abstract: A washing machine agitator spline coupling tool and method for using the tool is described for removing and installing an agitator spline coupling used to couple the agitator to the washing machine drive system. The tool facilitates in removing the spline coupling and installing a replacement spline coupling to an original factory installed position within the agitator. The useful life of the washing machine is extended without the need to replace the agitator itself. The tool includes a shaft and pressure plate assembly mechanism for pulling the spline coupling out of the agitator without damage to the agitator by maintaining alignment of component parts. The design dimensions for the tool elements permit a used spline coupling to be replaced with a new spline coupling to a desired factory selected position.

Abstract: A field completion tool including a open frame formed on the top end with a yoke including a centrally located threaded drive bore receiving a threaded drive shaft having a spigot thrust fitting on the bottom end thereof. The frame includes on the bottom end an oversized hex nut which forms a clearance bore that may optionally be threaded but which is of sufficient size to telescope over a plastic pipe projecting upwardly from the top end of a meter riser which is telescoped over the length of a plastic pipe projecting from an underground gas utility distribution system. The frame includes a handle for grasping with one hand and may be used to rotate the frame to thread the hex nut to couple the frame to the top end of the meter riser. The frame has a clamping means which blocks relative movement of the upwardly projecting plastic pipe relative to the frame.

Abstract: Tool for installing and removing anti-friction skate wheel bearings press fit in plastic skate wheels. A tubular shouldered split end passing through the inner race provides bearing engagement when spread by retraction of a conically headed rod projecting beyond the split end. A threaded end of the rod projecting beyond tube is retracted by a threaded knob reacting against the end of the tube, and the tube with bearing is retracted by rotating knob fixed on the tube to feed a threaded portion of the tube through a threaded collar reacting against a side of the wheel. For installing a bearing, it is retracted into a press fit cavity in the skate wheel; and for removing the bearing it is oppositely retracted by the same split end tube extension when spread by the conically headed rod and rotated in the collar.

Abstract: An apparatus for pulling roller bearings (6) from a retainer (2), in which the outer ring (7) of the bearing in question is clamped up, and a shaft received in the inner ring (8) of the bearing, comprises a device arranged to grip the bearing and be subjected to a pulling force in the direction of the shaft end (16) extending through the bearing for pulling the bearing from the retainer. The gripping device comprises at least one gripping means (13) arranged to be inserted from said shaft end into the bearing between said outer and inner ring in the space (17) between two rolling elements (9', 10') arranged consecutively in the circumferential direction of the rings.

Abstract: A centering tool for coaxially aligning a well block with a discharge bore of a steelmaking vessel, the centering tool comprising a support frame and a cluster of pivotable centering arms. Each centering arm includes a wedge shaped portion having a first edge adapted to engage a drive means, and a second edge having a first surface adapted to engage the wall of a bore extending through the well block, and a second surface adapted to engage the wall of the discharge bore of the steelmaking vessel. The drive means includes an expansion plug for engaging and pivoting centering arms positioned within the bore of the well block.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for removing a bearing. More particularly, the apparatus and method are designed to simplify the removal and replacement of all bearing cups and cones in an automotive automatic transmission. The apparatus includes an elongate bearing drive shaft; an adjustably sized mandrel which includes one or more bearing drive shoulders; a mandrel spreader for adjusting the mandrel drive shoulder to a predetermined dimension; and a collar or clamp ring for limiting the mandrel to a maximum outer dimension surrounding an outer surface of the bearing, without substantial slippage, during the removal and insertion steps, in one embodiment.

Abstract: A device for pulling a bushing from a housing comprises a collet having legs which are expanded outwards by a cam action. The collet and cam are mounted on a shaft and the collet legs pushed onto a conical cam surface of the cam to expand them outwards. Ribs on the outer surface of the legs engage the end of the bushing as the shaft is withdrawn through the bushing and housing, pulling the bushing from the housing.

Abstract: A tool for removing a transmission pump assembly from within an automatic transmission The tool includes an adjustable driver subassembly for applying torque to a central stator shaft of an automatic transmission, and a pump tool housing includes a plurality of pump tool halves adapted to be grippingly champed about the exterior of transmission pump reaction shafts of various diameters A pump tool housing formed of two pump tool halves, preferably made of aluminum, is secured to the outside surface of the transmission pump reaction shaft by two bolt and nut assemblies. The bolt and nut assemblies are tightened to squeeze the pump tool halves onto the exterior of the transmission pump reaction shaft so that the transmission pump can be pulled centrally off of the transmission stator shaft by torque applied to the stator shaft from a drive bolt threadedly secured to the pump tool halves.

Abstract: A withdrawing device for withdrawing a roller bearing from an arbor is comprised of a hollow body having a withdrawal sleeve and a spindle that axially penetrates the hollow body. The withdrawal sleeve has axially extending slots defining therebetween tongues with ends that widen radially outwardly in a cone shape with a conical outer mantle surface. The free ends constitute withdrawal elements. A clamping sleeve is axially slidably and rotatably connected to the hollow body. At one end thereof the clamping sleeve has a conical inner mantle surface mating with the conical outer mantle surface of the free ends. The clamping sleeve is comprised of a pressure sleeve and an adjusting sleeve, whereby the pressure sleeve comprises the conical inner mantle surface and the adjusting sleeve is rotatably connected to the hollow body and rotatably and axially fixedly connected to the pressure springs.

Abstract: A split nut blind hole bearing puller is made by using an elongated split nut with a bearing flange which is assembled with the blind hole behind a bearing. A retainer fits over the assembled split nut so a puller bolt can be screwed through the assembled split nut into the blind hole.

Abstract: A hand held plier type tool for connecting type F connectors to coax cable includes tool-jaws with stations for crimping F connector ferrules as well as a station for gripping the end of the cable. A loosely assembled F connector and cable assembly is held in position by the cable gripping station where a clamp screw mechanism is employed to force the F connector's barb under the jacket of the coax cable. One embodiment of the tool includes too-jaws and clamp mechanism that are separate and replaceable to a set of plural handles.

Abstract: A stud installer is provided that will not transmit torque to the spindle while the stud is being installed. Additionally, the stud installer of the present invention will not transmit force in a direction perpendicular to the stud.The present invention includes a collar having a longitudinal bore therethrough. The collar has a bearing surface at one end and support surface at the other. The collar can be of various geometries such as a straight cylinder or cylindrical with the support surface of larger diameter than the bearing surface.A stud puller of unitary construction is also provided which includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion is constructed to be received by the bore in the collar. The upper portion has a diameter greater than that of the bore of the collar. In this manner, the upper portion rests on the collar and is free to rotate about the central longitudinal axis of the collar.

Abstract: A reusable end finishing apparatus for rope, cord, wire, cable and the like is provided. The end finishing apparatus has an outer rigid sleeve, an inner compressible barbed gripping member which engages the end to be finished, and an eyebolt which has a threaded rod which extends through holes in both the compressible gripping member and the outer rigid sleeve. In assembly for use, the termination of the device to be finished is threaded through the eyebolt and doubled back. The eyebolt is then placed in the compressible gripping member with grooves in the gripping member provided for the eyebolt eye. The threaded rod end of the eyebolt is moved through a hole in the compressible gripping member until the eye of the eyebolt bottoms in the gripping member.

Abstract: A puller for a brake slack adjuster having a housing mounted on a mounting shaft and an elongate arm comprising a central portion having a threaded opening alignable with the mounting shaft, a first grasping arm extending from the central portion adapted to straddle and engage the adjuster housing and a second arm extending from the central portion adapted to overlie the adjuster elongate arm. A connecting bolt extendable between the second arm and the adjuster elongate arm is provided to allow for joining of the two arms. A threaded shaft is located in the threaded opening and engages the end of the mounting shaft whereby turning the threaded shaft acts to move the puller relative to the mounting shaft such that the adjuster is pulled from the mounting shaft. In a second embodiment, the central portion is formed with a cup-shaped flange adapted to surround a portion of the member to be removed from the shaft.

Abstract: A tool for removing and/or replacing bearings in situ comprises a brace having a first end adapted to engage a first end of the bearing housing, and a second end adapted to engage a second end of the bearing housing. If the two ends of the bearing housing are different in configuration, the respective ends of the brace are correspondingly configured. An elongate guide member integral with the brace has two parts, each projecting endwise from a respective end of the brace. A pressure plate is alternatively removable mountable on either part of the guide member for longitudinal movement therealong, and has first and second ends of different configurations adapted to engage first and second ends respectively of the bearing. A threaded-type drive is cooperative between the guide and the pressure plate to move the pressure plate longitudinally along the guide and apply a force to the bearing, either to remove the bearing from its housing, or to emplace a new bearing in the housing.

Abstract: A tool for installing and removing a clutch drum piston assembly from a planetary gear assembly and for installing and removing the planetary gear assembly within an automobile automatic transmission includes a sliding hammer arrangement and an adjustable spindle adapted to be used with clutch drum assemblies of various diameter central apertures. The adjustable spindle is formed form a plurality of elongated arcuate members radially disposed about a cylindrical member intermediate the ends of the arcuate members defining a fulcrum. An adjustment collar having a tapered interior surface is disposed about one end of the elongated arcuate members. As the adjustment collar is moved axially toward the other end of the assembly, the tapered inner surface causes the arcuate members to pivot radially outwardly about the fulcrum. A shaft is connected to the disk and extends outwardly from the collar. The outwardly extending portion of the shaft serves as a guide for a sliding hammer.

Abstract: A packer joint is provided for mounting on a vessel or pipeline entry valve which includes a stinger guide and an adjustable packer seal. A driving mechanism is mounted on the packer joint to which the stinger is connected for insertion through the packer joint into the vessel or pipe line. Improved clamping collets are mounted within the packer joint to retain the stinger in the desired position after insertion. A safety cap is provided for mounting on or around the packer joint and exposed end of the stinger after the stinger is inserted and the driving mechanism removed.

Abstract: A tubular bushing (68) is positioned into an opening (92) in a member (88). An axially split expansion sleeve (66) is placed onto a small diameter portion (54) of an extended mandrel (40). The mandrel (10) includes an increasing diameter portion (56) and a maximum diameter end portion (58) endwise from the small diameter portion (54). The maximum diameter portion (58) is sized to fit through the tubular bushing (68). The expansion sleeve (66), while on the small diameter portion (54) of the mandrel (10) can also fit through the bushing (68). The sleeve (66) is placed on the small diameter portion (54) of the mandrel (10) with its inner end (76) against the end (78) of a sleeve positioner (40). A tubular nosepiece (16) surrounds the sleeve positioner (40), and extends axially beyond the end surface (78). The mandrel (10) is inserted through the bushing ( 68) while the bushing (68) is within opening (92).

Abstract: A bushing extractor/installer apparatus for extracting an existing bushing having an axial throughbore from a vehicular suspension spring and installing a replacement bushing therein. The apparatus comprises a threaded rod, a shell portion, and a pair of circular disks: one disk for extraction of the existing bushing, the other disk for installation of the replacement bushing. The threaded rod is slidably sequentially inserted through a hydraulic ram having a throughbore, the shell portion with a cavity thereof being directed toward the bushing to be extracted, the bushing and the extraction disk. The shell portion being larger than and the extraction disk being smaller than the spring opening containing the bushing, the ram, in cooperation with the threaded rod and the extraction disk, urges the bushing into the cavity of the shell portion.

Abstract: A tool for removing seal plugs from a carburetor baseplate having a shaft and collet arrangement in which the shaft is formed at one end by a drill bit. The members are concentrically aligned within an outer holder member which also functions as a drill guide when the shaft-drill member is connected to a drill chuck and the drill bit end of the shaft is presented to the face cap of the seal plug. Once the end cap is removed by the drill bit end of the shaft member, the tool is then inserted as a unit through the cylindrical space defining the seal plug, and the seal plug is then removed in the conventional manner from the borehole without damaging the borehole or the baseplate.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a jig for fixing a bearing with a tapered bore through a tapered adapter sleeve on a rotational shaft comprises a positioning member which is attached to a housing receiving the bearing and which has a positioning surface for positioning the bearing in the axial direction, and drawing means which engages with the tapered adapter sleeve and which have driving means for moving the drawing means axially so that the tapered adapter sleeve is moved toward the positioning member. Movement of the tapered adapter sleeve generates strong fixing forces between the tapered bore and the tapered adapter sleeve and between the tapered adapter sleeve and the shaft. The positioning surface contacts with an end of inner ring of the bearing, which is located on the small diameter side of tapered bore.

Abstract: An attachment device is provided by joining a first structural member to the threaded stud of a second structural member by an attaching means which includes a flanged main body that has a tapered portion. A nut tightens the attachment device into an aperture of the first structural member and a removal tool is used to remove the attachment device when desired.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing the spherical ball from a support shaft in a joint assembly is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing defining a pair of orthogonally directioned, intersecting channels therein. The channels form a recess well configured to receive a ball to be removed. A drive shaft inserted in a third channel defined in the housing provides a means of applying force to the ball's support shaft, thereby causing the housing to abut against the ball and disengage it from its support shaft mounting.

Abstract: A reusable end finishing apparatus for rope, cord, wire, cable, poles, rods and the like is provided. The end finishing apparatus has an outer rigid sleeve and an inner compressible barbed gripping member which engages the end to be finished. The inner compressible gripping member is advanced into and compressed by the outer sleeve via a threaded rod and nut arrangement where the threaded rod is attached to the end of the gripping member and extends through the outer rigid sleeve.

Abstract: The invention provides a tool for aligning a clutch plate with a pressure plate. The tool includes an externally threaded tube having an adjustable clamping member engaged therewith for axial movement relative thereto. The tube comprises a stepped bore including a step between bore portions of differing diameter. An axially slideable bolt passes through the tube and has a nut at one end and a head at the other end. An elongate insert extends into the bore, and at one end thereof abuts against the step within the bore. The other end of said insert is formed as an enlarged deformable portion and is adapted to be radially expanded by the head of the bolt being drawn into it when the nut is tightened.

Abstract: A device for accurately positioning and automatically aligning correctly each guide sleeve within a bore of a cylinder head includes a hemispherical base section having a flat lower surface which is positioned on the bed of a press, and an upper hemispherical surface which accurately aligns a valve seat thereon during forcible insertion of the guide sleeve into the bore, and a guide rod secured centrally to the upper hemispherical surface for insertion in the respective bore to accurately guide the guide sleeve which is force fit into the respective bore.

Abstract: A golf club head removal tool includes a main block which can be secured to a fixed member such as a vise or work bench, and a locking plate for securing the golf club shaft to the main block. A force plate is formed in a plane parallel to the main block and has an opening therein for positioning the golf club shaft therein. A drive bolt is secured to the force plate and movable along its axis for moving the force plate with respect to the main block. Stabilizing pins retain the force plate in a plane perpendicular to the drive bolt axis when the force plate moves with respect to the main block.

Abstract: An assembly method and tool is provided for installing a front driven gear (18) in a torpedo housing bore (24) in the lower gearcase (12) of a marine drive, without hammer blow impacting of the gear. An axial shaft (60) has a front end (62) inserted into the gear and an annular shoulder (66) for press-fitting the gear into the reduced diameter front portion (28) of the torpedo housing bore (24). A front aligner (68) is provided by an annular disc (69) having an outer circumference (70) loosley engaging the torpedo housing bore (24) and having a central opening (72) axially sliding over the axial shaft (60). A rear shaft aligner (76) has a threaded outer circumference (80) threadingly engaging a rear threaded portion (26) of the torpedo housing bore (24), and having a central axial opening (82) axially sliding over the rear end (64) of the axial shaft.

Abstract: A device for accurately positioning and automatically aligning correctly each guide sleeve within a bore of a cylinder head includes a base having a lower surface and an upper frustoconical aligning surface for accurately and automatically aligning a valve seat thereon during forcible insertion of a guide sleeve into the respective bore, the base having a bore extending therethrough; a guide rod extending through the bore of the base for insertion into a bore of the cylinder head for automatically and accurately guiding the guide sleeve which is force fit into the respective bore of the cylinder head, the guide rod having an enlarged head at a lower end thereof with a hexagonal outer surface, and outer screw threads at an upper end thereof; a driver cylinder slidably positioned on the guide rod above a guide sleeve to be positioned in a respective bore of the cylinder head; and a hex nut driver threadedly engaged with the upper end of the guide rod for driving the guide sleeve into the respective bore of the

Abstract: There is disclosed an easily releasable fastener which is specifically designed for high torque applications. The fastener comprises a slotted nut having at least two axial slots, and preferably no more than one of the slots extends completely through the body of the fastener. The slots divide the fastener into at least two segments which, in the preferred embodiment are retained together by the residual portions of the incomplete slots. Each of the segments has a flat surface for torque transmission and the assembly of segments is surrounded by a thin retainer band seated in an annular groove about the body of the fastener. The fastener is mounted within a retaining ring which has internal flats that coact with the flatted surfaces of the individual segments. The retaining ring has external wrenching flats to permit the application of the fastener to a standard bolt.

Abstract: A device for placing i.e., pressing in and pulling off, bearings or sleeves, in particular for axle bearings and/or wheel flange hubs of motor vehicles, includes a threaded spindle with an abutment shoulder and threaded nut, a cylindrical spacer tube with a loosely insertable front wall receiving a thrust step bearing. The device includes several axial pressure pieces which can be arranged exchangeably on the threaded spindle between the threaded nut and a workpiece. To achieve universal usability, the spacer tube is provided on one side with an end ring surface interrupted by at least one wall cutout and on the other side with a centering cone or a centering rabbet. The front wall is insertable into the spacer tube through a centering projection selectively from both end faces. In addition, the thrust step bearing is accommodated in a bearing insertion part which can be screwed into a central threaded bore of the front wall and can be replaced with the threaded spindle e.g. by a hydraulic pressing device.

Abstract: A bearing puller comprising an elongated body member having a plurality of gripping arms at one end thereof with gripping shoulders being provided at the free end of each of the gripping arms. An elongated bolt is threadably mounted in the body member and has one end positioned between the gripping arms. A sleeve is longitudinally slidably mounted on the bolt and is designed to deflect the gripping arms outwardly when moved into a first position and to prevent inward deflection of the gripping arms during the bearing removal process. An actuator slidably embraces the body member and is operatively connected to the sleeve to enable the sleeve means to be selectively positoned. In a modified form of the invention, the bolt member is not utilized but is replaced by a slide hammer operatively attached to the body member.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a muffler mechanical lock joint, and the resulting assembly. An end panel is loaded in a die structure. Die segments on chuck jaws hold an end panel flange. A tube is loaded over a wedge, punch segments, a punch segment holder, barrel and wedge drive rod. The panel, chuck and die structure are driven over the tube. Each punch segment includes a protrusion punch and a bead punch segment. The wedge is axially pulled. Guiding and guided members on the punch segments and segment holder allow only radial movement of the segments. Axial pulling of the wedge thereby causes radial expansion of the punch segments. The radially expanded punch segments form a plurality of protrusions in the tube and panel flange, and an adjacent bead.

Abstract: A tool for inserting valve stems in the wheel rim of a tubeless tire and wheel combination comprises a tubular body having a tapered inner peripheral wall and an end portion adapted to be received in the stem hole of the wheel rim. The other end of the tubular body has a threaded aperture adapted to receive a threaded shaft therethrough. The shaft is adapted to engage the end of a valve stem and as it is rotated to drive it axially through the tubular body. As a result, the resilient, spaced apart ribs at the other end of the valve stem are axially compressed as they are driven through the stem hole in the wheel. Once the end most rib has protruded outwardly from the end of the tubular body, and expands on the inner side of the wheel rim wall, the tube is removed from the stem hole and the shaft is further rotated to extract the innermost rib from the end of the housing whereby the innermost rib expands on the opposite side of the wheel rim wall to thereby mount the valve stem to the wheel rim.

Abstract: The tube plug removal machine removes any type of tube plug by drilling into a plug portion with a tap drill bit, engaging that plug portion with a threaded section of the tap drill bit after the drilled hole has been threaded by a tapping section thereof, and removing a portion of the tube holding the plug in the tube with a counterbore drill bit mounted concentrically about the tap drill bit. A trip pin and trip spline enable the tap drill bit to be automatically disengaged from the motor once the tap drill bit has been threaded into engagement with the plug. The conterbore drill bit is thereafter self-centered with respect to the tube and plug about the now stationary tap drill bit. After a portion of the plug has been removed by the counterbore drill bit, pulling on the tap drill bit will remove the remaining plug portion from the tube.

Abstract: A wheel puller for use on large wheel and tire assemblies has a plate adapted for attachment to a tire rim. A back plate is spaced apart from this plate and extends across the axis of the wheel hub. Two wedge blocks are placed between the back plate and the wheel hub on either side of the center line of the wheel hub. A driving wedge is inserted between each wedge block and the back plate.In the process of using the wheel puller, the driving wedges are alternately tapped with a light hammer to pull the rim away from the hub. If necessary wedging spacers may be inserted between the driving wedges and the backplate to increase the distance that the wheel rim may be driven off the hub.

Abstract: A puller for spherical bushings comprises an inner puller body having a cylindrical outer surface so that it can be inserted into the bore of the bushing with a lip at one end for engaging behind the bushing. A wedge member actuated by an elongate bolt forces the lip outwardly into engagement. A screw threaded portion of the outer surface of the puller body carries a nut which can drive a sleeve shaped outer puller axially along the inner puller body to engage an outer member carrying the bushing. An installing tool is also provided including a cylindrical portion for insertion into the bore of a bushing and a shoulder at the end of that portion for engaging the end surface of the bushing so that hammer blows applied to one end of the tool force the bushing into place.

Abstract: An assembly device for the assembly and disassembly of axle bearings of motor vehicles or of wheel flange hubs, makes it possible to press in or pull out the roller bearings to be installed in or pulled out of a cylinder bore of a bearing cylinder while being guided so as to be centered. The assembly device can also press a wheel flange hub into a roller bearing that is already installed in a bearing cylinder. The device has a threaded spindle (1) which is guided and supported in an axial support bearing (2) and is provided with a threaded nut (11) in contact with a pressure transmitting part (8) or counterbearing. The axial support bearing (2) is disposed concentrically in the face wall (3) of a tubular spacer (4) which has on its face opposite the axial support bearing (2), a concentric support shoulder (26). An annular disc provided with an annular extention (8') serves as pressure transmitting part (8).

Abstract: A device to push a wheel flange hub or splined hub of motor vehicles out of a shaft bearing press-fitted in a bearing cylinder is of simple design and easy to handle and, in addition, adjustable to different diameters of various bearing cylinders. The device includes two each semi-cylindrical spreader sectors supported on the one hand by axial pins in eccentric axial holes in a supporting member resembling an internally threaded ring so they can swivel while having at their opposite ends projections which project radially outward and can be inserted in form closing fashion into an annular groove of the bearing cylinder. A threaded spindle equipped with a wrench engagement head and a spreading cone is adjustably screwed into a central, tapped hole of the supporting member by means of which threaded spindle the spreader sectors can be spread apart. Seated in a central, tapped hole of the threaded spindle is a pressure screw with a pressure transmitting part and a wrench head.

Abstract: A case remover (10) is used for dislodging a bullet case (12) lodged within a sizing die (14). The case (12) includes a neck (20), a shoulder (22) depending rearwardly from the neck (20) and a bottom wall (34). The die (14) includes a die body (48) having a second bore (58) extending through the longitudinal axis of the die body (48). A sizing rod (52) engages the second bore (58) and has lock and depth nuts (54, 56) threadably engaging the upper part (68) of the sizing rod (52) and a sizer (72) rigidly secured to the bottom part (70) of the sizing rod (52). The second bore (58) includes a lower wall (62). The case remover (10) includes a bolt (80) having a third bore (90) extending through the longitudinal axis of the bolt (80), a nut (82) threadably engaging the bolt ( 80) and a knock-out pin (84).

Abstract: A sleeve bearing puller for removing sleeve bearings such as camshaft bushings from engine cylinder blocks including a pair of expandable and contractable half cylinder shaped extractors having an outer end pulling flange and internal longitudinally spaced cam surfaces, guide pins between the extractors for guiding them in parallel relation between expanded and contracted positions, and expander mandrel between the extractors having longitudinally spaced cam surfaces for expanding the extractors in parallel relation in response to a pull on the mandrel, and a garter spring encircling the extractors holding the extractors on the expander mandrel.

Abstract: A device for the removal and installation of bearings and hubs on all front wheel drive vehicles. The device comprises a main housing, a threaded rod guider, a bearing pusher, a bearing stopper, a push nut, a hub installer, a hub pusher and a guide lock nut. For the hub removal function, the device uses the hub pusher which exerts a pushing pressure against the hub to be removed. For the wheel bearing removal function, the device uses the bearing pusher which exerts a pushing pressure against the wheel bearing to be removed. For wheel bearing installation function, the device uses the bearing pusher which exerts a pushing pressure against the bearing to be installed. For the hub installation function, the device uses the bearing pusher which exerts a pushing pressure against the hub to be installed. To perform these functions there is no need to remove the wheel bearing housing from the vehicle. Also there is no need for major disassembly of adjacent parts or disturbance of front end alignment.

Abstract: To service an engine, it is frequently determined that a cylinder liner and piston must be replaced. Removal is difficult and time consuming if the piston is first removed through the liner and the liner is then grasped from below and pulled from the block. A method includes inserting a tool into a bore of the liner and expanding the tool into a frictional fit against the liner. A force is applied on the tool to forcibly move the liner. The piston and associated rings and rod are held in place in the liner by a partial vacuum for removal with the liner as a complete unit.

Abstract: A body having parallel, flat ends and a through bore of a conical configuration is placed with the small end of the conical bore against and in alignment with a socket. The bushing, having an elastomer on its exterior, is placed with its end in the upper end of the body bore. A bolt head abuts the end of the bushing. The bolt passes through the bushing, the body and the socket. When a nut threaded on the bolt is turned, the bushing is pulled through the body and is subjected to tension and elongation. This reduces the diameter of the elastomeric part of the bushing to fit into the socket. The parts effecting the tensioning are then removed from the socket and bushing. The bushed socket can be placed into service.

Abstract: An open ended cylindrical sleeve is provided including a washer secured over one axial end of the sleeve in any convenient manner such as by welding and the washer is of an outside diameter greater than the outside diameter of the sleeve and of an inside diameter less than the inside diameter of the sleeve.

Abstract: A tool for installing an oil seal for an internal combustion engine crankshaft wherein an adapter is affixed to the end of the crankshaft having a cylindrical guide surface upon which the seal is initially located axially positioning the seal in alignment with a recess in which it is to be received. A ram axially movable upon the adapter is translated by a wing nut to displace the seal from the adapter guide surface into the seal recess while maintaining the proper orientation of the seal throughout the entire installation procedure.

Abstract: A combination bearing removal and installation tool provides for the removal and installation of an annular bearing assembly from and in a spindle-receiving bore of a strut type vehicle wheel spindle supporting system without the need to disassemble any of the supporting system from the vehicle. The tool comprises a threaded shaft having a head at one end and a cup threaded onto the shaft from the other end. In the bearing removal mode of operation the open end of the cup faces the head end so that when the head is actuated to remove a bearing from the bore the bearing passes into the cup. In the bearing installation mode of operation the cup is reversed on the shaft so that an end wall of the cup bears against the end of the bore.

Abstract: A tool for removing and replacing automobile wheelbearings without removing either the axle or the bearing housing and without applying pressure to the axle. A frame is provided which is adapted to be secured to the bearing housing. An extractor is movably connected to the frame to travel between an advanced and retracted position. When the frame is secured to the bearing housing, the advanced position of the extractor places it in the bearing housing between the axle and the central opening of the bearing, with the end of the extractor being past the bearing. The end of the extractor is operable between an expanded and retracted state. In its expanded state, the end of the extractor cannot be moved through the central opening of the bearing and thus moving the extractor to its retracted position while it is expanded will draw the bearing out of the housing.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a hand operated swager for attaching swaged end fittings to flexible hose. The apparatus includes an elongated frame having a screw rotatably supported at one end thereof and restrained against axial movement. An adapter cooperates with the screw through a ball nut mounted upon the adapter wherein the adapter is linearly displaceable upon the frame toward and away from a frame mounted swaging die. The linear axial displacement between the adapter and screw is accommodated within the adapter permitting power means to be applied to the screw, if desired.

Abstract: A new bushing removal tool for removing bushings from aircraft transparencies combines a U-shaped tool body, supporting base plates, a threaded shaft extending through the tool body, a large nut screwed on one end of the threaded shaft and a bushing puller on the other end of the threaded shaft. The bushing puller has a pivoting tip which, in one pivoted position, allows the bushing puller to fit through the bushing and, in another pivoted position, engages the bushing so that, when the large nut is rotated, the bushing puller is pulled up. The bushing is pulled up with the bushing puller. A hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder and piston can be used in place of the threaded shaft and large nut. A specially shaped shaft with a fixed tip can be used as the bushing puller for small or fragile bushings.