The KLANN is WAY better than the Sir Tools, IMHO.

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Can you expound on the differences between these two tools that you would choose the Klann over the other?


MBWerker,
When you say you made the ring remover with a half inch socket did you actually cut away the sides of the socket to make the part that fits into the ring? Obviously, I don't really get how you made it...

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'72 280SE 4.5 - looking to breathe life into it
'84 300SD Grey - Sold
'85 300SD Silver - Sold
'78 Ski Nautique

Hey, I want to hear more about the spring compressor too. When I was a 16 year old kid, I rebuilt the front end of a '62 chevy using a homemade spring compressor. It consisted of 7 inch long, 1 inch wide, 3/4" thick steel bars on each end with a hole for a 5/8" inch threaded rod. The first time I used it, it started compressing the springs then, bang, the steel bars unwound following the curvature of the springs. It looked like a propeller in a hurricane. I rigged up a clamp to make them stay put but I swore I would never do this again. I had no idea how dangerous it was until a couple years later when I heard that someone was killed when a coil spring under compression let loose and hit him in the head.

Sorry about the confusion on the collar remover. It wasn't a 1/2" socket it was a 1" or 1-1/8" socket that had a 1/2" drive. The external diameter of the collar is 1.265+/- 0.001". The internal diameter is 0.983 +/- 0.001". I used a socket with the same external diameter and cut the ears which are 0.362 +.005/-0.002" wide. Once I had the flat ears cut, I bevelled them with a hand file until they followed the contour of the slot in the prechamber (It's not flat, it's at an angle).
I will send pictures when I find the tools, my car is spread all over the garage and I can't find the collar remover.

"my car is spread all over the garage and I can't find the collar remover." I really must suggest that you not follow my example in your mechanicing habits... Your life will be much happier....

hey is this the crank puller you guys used?

http://bike.shimano.com/catalog/cycle/products/multiproduct.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302032746&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181202&bmUI D=1113525337466

The tool which Bruce sent to me for the loaner program is labeled Pack Tool USA CCP-4...
But I have not gotten around to welding the end on it ....

do we have to weld something? i was thinking buy this tool and rod with similar threds. and make a homemade slide hammer.

Nobody has mentioned an injector body for the threaded part of the puller. Why not?

The injectors thread into the prechamber collar, not the PC.

Thanks, that makes sense. I remember a story about a collar getting unscrewed accidentally because of this.

A1jatt... this particular bicycle tool has no means to attach the slide hammer to the back of it.. .thus my plan to weld it.... might machine something for the backside if you have ability to address it that way....

o ok , after doing some more reading i realised that last night. ther word crank "puller" fooled me. I think on the bycycle it works more like a crank pusher.

looks like there are two different size threads on merecedes motors prechambers.Does anybody know if this homemade tool will be compatiable with 89 190D 2.5 motor.
thanks

well i will answer my own question. 89 2.5 prechamber has same threads a injector which happened to be the same as dodge caravan axle shaft, nissan pulsar, saab axle / axle shafts. i used caravan's axle's outer end and slide hammer to pull it out.

Just as a note, when I had to have my 81SD head work done, I looked at buying the chamber pulling tools and they were just too expensive for one job.
So I called a couple of MB indies and asked where they got the head work done on a diesel. One of them pointed me to a local machine shop that had the tools and also knew how to do the work.
He got it all done in just a week. Didn't even rob me. I brought in the parts as he said he did not want to run those down. Nice.