What tools have you made/modified for your Ferrari

I find that I have an increasing pile of tools that I have made or modified to perform maintenance on my 400i & would love to see any tools others have made to make life easier.

I'll start with the first one I modified -

A 6 point 36mm socket machined down to 46mm outside diameter to fit the main crankshaft pulley bolt.

Cheers,
Al



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This one is for adjusting the timing chain tensioner.
It was made from an old 8mm hex shaft repurposed from a broken caulking gun.
It was heated & bent on each end so that one end is half a flat out to the other allowing adjustment with a minimum swing.

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These were made this week to change the vacuum hose to the brake booster.
These turned an awkward job into a fairly easy one.
The hose pliers were made from a cheap pair of 11inch pliers & an old ring spanner.

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Bracket to hold front suspension arm while pressing out bush.
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Plate for pulling the heads. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Great jobbies Al!

 

Puller for fuel injectors.
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Valve spring compressor. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

3D printed tool for the 10mm nuts on the windscreen washer jets.

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Ring nut spanner for setting diff pinion bearing preload.

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Pulley attachment for setting diff pinion bearing preload.

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Bent spanner to remove top starter motor nut so the exhaust does not have to be removed on a 365 and probably would work for 400/412
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Y'know yer stuffed now don'tcha,all the mob on here are gonna want you to make 'em all what you've got!.

 

Wow! All I do is sign the cheque - although I have made an injector puller from electrical conduit and a bonnet pin.

 

I would never do that! I'd ask to borrow them...

 

Al, I'm guessing that aside from fooling around with a lathe, mill and welder there's not much else to do in the Alice .
Great collection of special tools, impressed you've delved in to setting the diff preload.
I've made the head pressing plate for the 412 and also for a 308
For the 412 , a variety of modified spanners to undo the hard lines from the injectors and to undo the starter motor. But curious why you needed to mod a sockect for the crankshaft as the one In my toolkit fitted without problems.

 

Thanks Mike,

What brand socket fitted?
This might be of interest to other members as all the ones I tried had too large an outside diameter to fit inside the pulley.

Not many options around Alice for getting work done so have to do it myself or send things 1500Km away.
We don't even have an engine rebuilder in town.

Cheers,
Al

 

Good day All,

Well done with all those custom tools! You all are quite resourceful!

Cheers,

Sam

 

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Koken 36mm 1/2 drive, 47mm OD, had it for years...

 

412 Head removal plate, made that in 2008 ( not as nice as Al's !) This fits the left hand side. If I was smarter I would have designed it to fit either side, but one side came off with no problems. It's one of those tools you hope never to have to use again. Image Unavailable, Please Login )

 

Modified spanners for removing hard lines on injectors, "cut and shut" welding, and a bit of grinding, heating and bending of cheap spanners. Not pretty but work.



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Old spanners do come in very handy.
Yesterday I made a set of valve shim replacement tools out of two old spanners.
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I also made up a simple tool this week for removing the camshaft alignment/drive pins.
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Not sure if this is the same category but I made a tester for the Bosch throttle bodies on my 360. Used it to determine which TB was bad and also qualify a used unit. I bought two TB's from ebay and one was a perfect match for the good one in the car. So far, the tester is right.

Here's the tester in action:



I wrote a long and boring article about it on my blog.

https://www.ferrari360.org/2020/07/bosch-throttle-body-replacement.html

 

Koken are well known for being great quality with thin walls. Their plug sockets are the best.