Help me identify new-to-me tools

[TurnipTruck]

I spent last week cleaning up a friends property for sale after the lessor bailed. I was able to recognize nearly everything salvaged, except for this toolbox of miscellany:


I am assuming it’s mostly heavy equipment tooling, but if anything reminds you of something, let me know.

 

[The Cobbler]

I see mostly distributor wrenches, home made whatever's and part of a slide square

 

[shoggoth80]

I see distributor wrenches, and maybe an EGR wrench. Might also be a vacuum modulator wrench. Large open end, thin. Might fit some fan clutches (though doesn't look like any from a set I'm familiar with). T shaped bolts are for caging air cans for tractor/trailer brake systems. Raised panel Craftsman is either broken, or cut down for some specific job where clearance was needed.

 

[3baygarage]

Maybe some Detroit and Cummins tools in there.

 

[four.cycle]

I recognize very few of those objects. My best stab at it:

 

[rust in the eye]

The distributor wrenches are obvious and appear almost all that isn't hand made.
At the top left looks like a salvaged transmission input shaft that would have been used to align a clutch plate during assembly.
The three bolts below, missing their heads and having slots cut in them were likely also used for aligning parts being assembled. I have a similar bunch in various sizes I use to to align/hang a transmission from an engine while mating the transmission. The slot allows then to be easily removed with a screwdriver and the permanent bolts installed.
One (top center-ish cylindrical tool) appears to a tool used to force Zirc fittings clear.
Can't speak to the rest but they certainly represent a story each. The owner was a resourceful guy.

 

[vwpieces]

90 degree obstruction bolt is a keeper.

 

[64C10]

Toss those homemade lifting eyes/eyebolts in the trash with extreme prejudice…..seen too many foot/ankle fractures and a 19 year old kid lose his right leg from those.

 

[four.cycle]

^^ ahhh... THAT'S what those were made up for, eh?

 

[64C10]

^^ ahhh... THAT'S what those were made up for, eh?

Exactly…..much cheaper than buying forged/rated eyebolts for every thread pitch.

 

[Raineman]

The white round piece at the top right is a tool for spreading internal clips on fuel or A/C lines (or both) to get them apart.

The 6 pieces on the left (3 & 3) look like they are for snap ring pliers, sort of.

The red hinged tool on the bottom right could be some frankensteined valve spring compressor, but I can't see the whole thing.

The open end distributor wrenches could be actually for adjusting valves.

 

[jives]

Nothing else to add, but the blue thing in the lower right corner looks to be the protractor attachment for a combination square, but modified. It looks like a thin steel plate has been affixed over the angle markings, and the set screws for the rotating protractor removed. Couldn't tell ya' why.

 

[2oolhound]

I think these have something to do with adjustments to fuel injectors.

 

[Radio Flyer]

 

[joel63]

I think these have something to do with adjustments to fuel injectors.

Yes, they are used for making adjustments on Detroit diesels.

 

[joel63]

I think these have something to do with adjustments to fuel injectors.

Yes they are used to make height adjustments on Detroit Diesels.

 

[Ricky Joe]

I think these have something to do with adjustments to fuel injectors.

For Detroit engines

 

[Ricky Joe]

The big wrench looks like a Ford Model T exhaust packing nut wrench, almost necessary to get the exhaust off. However, it looks like it has burn marks, so either home made, modified, or for something else.

 

[whitesco]

That flat zinc plated (apparently) tool in the bottom center looks a lot like some old door handle clip or similar trim removal tools from before everything on the interior car door was electric and/or molded into the panel.

 

[engineer2]

If any of those are specialty service tools they might be identified as Kent-Moore J-xxxx or possibly Hinckley-Myers if they are really old.

 

[Sumboodie]

I think these have something to do with adjustments to fuel injectors.

Bottom ones are for setting Detroit injectors. 60 series i think? (Been a while. Maybe for older as well, I've not worked on them)
Top ones look to be modified ones.


The topish left in the pic, 3 zinc chromate bolts are brake can caging bolts.

 

[Wrench97]

I think these have something to do with adjustments to fuel injectors.

Detroit 2 cycle injectors, 1.484, 1.470, 1.500, 1.460 once in a great while on stationary engines 1.496 were the most popular.
Two of those chrome curved handle wrenches were for the valve and injector lock nut and push rod to adjust the valve lash and injector timing.
Here is the old Kent Moore kit.

At one time I used those tools every day, now I probably have not touched them in 10 years, the last time I used them was on a buddies 671TTI boat engine....

 

[Wrench97]

Bottom ones are for setting Detroit injectors. 60 series i think? (Been a while. Maybe for older as well, I've not worked on them)
Top ones look to be modified ones.


The topish left in the pic, 3 zinc chromate bolts are brake can caging bolts.

Series 60 are longer and have metric measurements on them.


Right next to the camber caging bolts is a home made set of Detroit cylinder head installation/line up studs, complete with a screwdriver slot for removal, sometimes the head was so close to the cab on a set back engine you had to cut them short and reach down in the head hole to get them out after you got the heads in place and a couple head bolts started.

I remember one model White with a 290 Cummins we use to drill a hole in the heater/defroster duct over the dog box so the head bolt would go up high enough to get it out, then patch the hole with trailer tape...