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Aug 16, 2024
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We need to replace this fitting right here, and if you look at it, there is not really any way to hold on to it
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So we need to make a tool to take this out, and so what I want to do is show you how to make a tool for this
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but also show you some of the tools that I've had to make throughout the years and show you how important it is that you need to learn how to make tools
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We're going to use this through here like this as a display for our design for our tool
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You notice how there are two notches right here, and you know, that's just however big the inside of this one is
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There's another one down here. Same thing. You've got two notches on both sides of that. This is just a larger one
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So what we need to do is make a tool that is going to fit inside of here, but have something that will have notches on it
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That way it can hold the fitting with the notches. While we're talking about making tools, you can see the tool that I made here. Nice little stand to hold my lower unit
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Two screws, a piece of wood, and the lower unit just kind of fits in the gap in the skeg
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So that's what holds a lower unit, nice way to create something to hold your low unit
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But we're going to be using this piece of wood right here. I'm actually going to chop this off to make it flat
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And then we need to do some whittling to get this down to the size that'll fit inside of our fitting there on the boat
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A couple tools that I've made throughout the years. Here is some adapters usually for lower units
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So once you pull the lower unit off of the boat, you can see on the water pump housing, there is a hole there
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And so you need a various size hoses because there's a pipe that fits down into here
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Being this pipe right here, which is our water tube, and that's what gets water up into the powerhead
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That's what that looks like on the lower unit. And so sometimes you want to hook water up straight to that pipe
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And so I've made a bunch of miscellaneous ones that'll hook straight to a garden hose and then the end of them are just built for miscellaneous tube sizes that will then fit over that water tube, hook it to the garden hose, and then you can put water straight there
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Same thing, you can cap them. So that way, if you don't want any water to come out, but just a couple of things that I've made throughout the years
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This one's pretty interesting. This is just a bolt with a grease fitting stuck on it used for young
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Yamaha caling latch handles. Take the one bolt out, put this one in there, put a grease gun on there
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And you can inject grease into the handle, and that's a good way to grease your handles
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Alright, there we go. That's a pretty good start to our tool that we need to make
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I basically just took a saws on, kind of whittled it down
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Probably going to need to do a little bit more to get it smaller
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We need this to be fairly rough. to stick into the hole and we'll go test this in a second but let's look at a couple
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other tools this simply was used to hook two air hoses together to fill an air tank
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so one here one there and you have continuous air filling here is a couple of
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electrical connectors that I made this is just for doing an injector test you can
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click this to the battery put power to an injector testing a fSM on a mercury This will test the high pressure pump the lift pump and then your float switch So you can hook this straight to the engine and be able to test all of those components
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Sometimes you need to cut wrenches and grind them down to fit into areas
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Not exactly sure what exactly I made this for, but you can tell, just grind it down, that way it'll fit
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Sometimes you've got to cut them in half to fit into a small area
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Flayer wrenches are really useful because they will give you a really good bite on a six point this I use for a pinion nut on a gear case just had to
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grind it down so that way it would fit into the gear case to hook on to that
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pinion nut got some more stuff here I want to talk about but let's go ahead and
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see if this fits into our fitting does not fit in there this is a similar size to the
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one that we're going to be using so I'm just using this one as like a test and And nope, this does not fit in there just yet, so let's go ahead and grind this down just a little bit more
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There we go. Look at that. That is starting to look like it's going to fit pretty nice
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I need to shave it down just a little bit so I can get more of the neck up in there
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that's as far as I can get as of right now a couple of a spots on there that's
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all that's getting fed in there so let me just get a little bit more off of there just
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just a hair more oh yeah look at that now that is nice look that fitting in there
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so now I just want to push on this kind of spin it around to give us a reference point of how far it sticks in there and then also
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we need to know where we're going to put our piece so we've got our mark all the way around it
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we know where it sticks into the fitting let's talk about a couple of other things that i've
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had to make right here this is just a drain plug took a grinder and cut lines in it
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and so this will clean out the threads of your drain plug
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So if you have problems with your drain plug starting to corrode, you can just get another plug
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cut the lines out of it, and you have made yourself a thread chaser that you can stick in there
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It'll clean all the stuff off the threads and pack it into here, and then you can pull all that junk out of the boat
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Same thing with grinding down sockets to fit into small areas that you need to make it fit
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Obviously, you don't want to use snap on. You want to get yourself some cheap drop for
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drop for, just China, really good stuff. shift shaft holders this is just the part of a shift shaft that was bent down to
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make a handle to fit onto a shift shaft so that way I can turn a shift shaft like
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this being being I can shift the lower unit now so having stuff like this also
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here just another one that I made basically the same thing but this one I use pair of vice grips on my really really really nice vice grips these little tiny things So those are a couple good tools to make
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Right here is a wire brush, epoxyed into a long handle that I can put on a drill and then run it to clean something that was very, very far away
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we've got stuff like this used for pushing in prop shaft seals into a lower unit like on this one here
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needs to be a little bit smaller because this is the wrong size but this is for a v8 and you use
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that side to push the seal in there this right here is used to hook up to any kind of strater
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valve that you need to put pressure into so I use this for like if I need to add air to
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an Opti Max to avoid using the pressure, the compressor. I can run the engine without the compressor to check other things on the engine
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Very good for diagnostic. Again, it's just a bunch of fittings put together
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Here's allows me to hook up to an air hose and then just some adapters that allowed me to
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get to this nipple that then allowed me to put a hose that hooks to a Schrader valve
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So that is very useful to make. Here is a fuel cinder that I use for testing
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It's a good fuel cinder. Obviously it's not that good of shape, but for me, I just hook it straight up to the gauge
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or whatever I need to test there at the fuel tank, and I can run this up and down and test
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the fuel system outside of that. Same thing for this. This is just a pressure gauge, so I can use this for pressure testing
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Another nice little adapter for testing trailers, so this will hook straight up to the trailer
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I can hook this straight to a battery, and then I can take this and move it back and forth
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between the different leads, so that way I can test all the lights on the trailer
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And then one of my more favored things is going to be this right here
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It's just an engine harness that hooks straight to a Yamaha engine, and then I have
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cut it, spliced it to adapt it to a key switch, so that way I've got a lanyard, I've got
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a key switch, I've got a warning horn. I can test basically the boat side of things without having a key switch
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the boat so I can disconnect the engine from the boat to test the engine to troubleshoot
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for problems. And these are just a few examples of all the tools that I've made throughout the years
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And let's move on to getting our last little thing done on this, so that way we can try
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and take out the fitting that we need to take out there on the boat
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So you see we've got our line here. Now all we need to do is get something through this that will hold those notches
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And what I like to do is drill a hole in this, and then we're going to use a line here
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a piece of metal to stick through it. Here is our piece of metal and we just need to stick it here to see how far we need to make it
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So I need it to be about that long right there. So now let's take this into the vise and make this piece of metal that long
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there is our piece of metal that going to be used for our holder
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Now all we need to do is drill a hole through this to hold it
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So we're going to go just inside of our mark and you want to go straight through
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Now we can take our piece of metal, stick it right there
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Well that hole isn't very straight. There we go. Much better
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And there we go. Now we've got our, it's a little off, but got our two pieces that stick out to the
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side so now let's go see if this fits in our fitting yeah look at that so now we can
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actually hold this fitting in order to take it out obviously you can play around with
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the distances if this is a little too far sticking out on one side or if it's not
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exactly straight you can you know grind this down a little bit to make it a little bit
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thinner so now let's go take this and see what it looks like on the fitting
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that we actually have to take out. So coming up here. Boom. So that is perfect
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Since we're replacing this fitting and it doesn't have those tabs, all we gotta do is take like a flathead or something and pop a hole in there
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and then that way we can hold this fitting and take the nut off from the back
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So now let's get to the back of this thing and see what we're working with with this space
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It is going to be super tight. Looking at this, it's going to be a 90 degree
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So you've got that right there, and it comes over as a 90, and then comes down to this fitting
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So that is definitely, might be a complication. We might not even be able to do this because you might have to cut this whole fiberglass piece out in order to, you know, get access to everything back there
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But we're going to take this back panel apart and see what we look like. Well, that is completely foamed in and honestly I don't feel like messing with that
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See how thin this is. It goes straight in there. That's right to the back of the live well
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I'm going to have to dig all that out just to change that fitting
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It's actually not in that bad of shape now that I'm looking at it and I can see the back
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of there. Obviously it would be better to replace it but I think we're just in that
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just going to clean it and try and put some stuff on there to keep the plastic from degrading
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anymore just so we don't have to mess with this as of right now not a 100% problem otherwise you'd
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have to cut this glass and I'm not trying to get into all that today but at least you learn how
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to make this tool as well as the importance of thinking outside of the box and learning to
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make tools when you need to do something so that way there is always a way to get a job done if you
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really want them to get the job done
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