Included in my car purchase were a number of boxes of parts. As I sorted through the parts, I found two tools that I can’t identify. For all I know they are used to disassemble the space shuttle engines. Or maybe they are some special $500 Porsche tool that someday I will wish I hadn’t thrown out.
Best I can tell it is meant to have some type of ratcheting motion. As you move the handle on the tool back and forth the lever on the end seems to catch and release the three toothed gear. This rotates the gear. I am somewhat a fan of mechanical clocks and the first thing I thought of was that this was much like a clock escapement. Here is a link to an animation of a clock escapement that works much like what this tool looks to do…
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/3934/bwatch.html
On the first photo the one on the bottom shows the lever part engaged with the gear. The second photo shows the lever spun around to see it in detail.
Any idea what this is??
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almost look like makeshift trunk hinges
Penis stretcher.
Maybe Miles wants to borrow it.
maybe it fits a huge clock?
They are prototype car lifts used on the front/rear sway bar for #114. As you roll into a corner, the arm rachets holding the car in a tilted position thru the corner. The only way to reset them is to launch the car off the road so you get a full suspension drop on each side. Was not widely used, as the launching off the road was not considered an acceptable practice. The engineer that designed them was given another boot and went on to excellence in design of the YUGO.
looks like 356 front hood hinges
QUOTE (davep @ Sep 22 2005, 08:33 AM) |
looks like 356 front hood hinges |
No idea on the tool but how is your floor holding up
QUOTE (Kerrys914 @ Sep 22 2005, 09:38 AM) |
No idea on the tool but how is your floor holding up |
QUOTE (Cap'n Krusty @ Sep 22 2005, 09:08 AM) | ||
Yup. The Cap'n |
I haven't spent any time with a 356, but I suspect that the ratchet/escapement movement allows the hood to be raised and locked in position. Then maybe you can pick it up slightly from the "locked" position to release it and then lower the hood back down??
I guess I will put this on my list of things to put on eBay.... "Pair of 356 hood hinges. Do not know which model these are for. Sold as is!"
Yes, raise and lock, raise and release. However, a lot of pump jockeys did not know the raise and release bit and ruined a lot of (very expensive) front lids.
About the same thing for a '72 911 with the fender oil filler. Many a '72 got the oil tank filled with gas. Very small fillup also. Twas a one-year-only feature.
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