I'm a sucker for odd tools in the dollar bins at swap meets. I picked this up recently. Google has not been helpful. K-D 2022 is stamped on the handle. What is is for?


Thanks
Don W

 

Its for removing and installing a muffler bearing

 

Left Or Right

 

Its clearly an expander.

What it expands, is another question. Something with a square-ish cross-section, I'd guess.

 

Looks like something to do with adjusting/holding brake shoes, maybe the old non self-adjusting type???? I have a bunch of old K-D drum brake tools but that's not one of them. I had no luck searching it either.

 

Looks like it would be for expanding, or holding in place, drum brake pads.

 

How long is it? Could it be used to put on and take off hood springs?

 

Spring spreader? I for one would not use that wimpy rusty thing on a hood hinge!

 

K-D 2022 Brake Star-Nut Adjuster
It's for spreading brake shoes to remove/ install the star adjuster on drum brakes.
From my 1973 K-D tool catalog

 

Thanks Ancient Iron. I thought it might be brake related. I bought a Blue Point drum measuring tool also in the lot of tools.

Don W

 

Your welcome
Neat tool and for a real cool price .... Now I want one LOL.

 

Very cool.

I thought you were supposed to get a t-shirt or hat from the tool truck guy if you needed a tool that he wasn't familiar with. I was wrong though. I ordered this from a SnapOn guy recently:



It's a piezoelectric pulse adapter to set the injection pump timing on a mechanically injected diesel. I got it for my 86 Ford f250. I guess I need to track down an Olds diesel now since I have a tool I could use with it!

 

I spent some time last night looking (googling) and not one picture or even a clue to its identity was found. I tried my darnest

I think you stumped the google. I'm glad we have the community here, for just this thing.

 

i used to have one of those and used it on the 5.7 diesels.

 

The Olds 5.7 sold a lot of Snap-On MT1480 Lumy-Mags. You'd set the timing by comparing the instant that the burn started in the chamber (based on the chamber lighting up as seen through a luminosity probe screwed into the glow-plug hole) compared to the magnetic crank sensor reading the 'slot" in the torsional damper. The timing cover has a holder for the magnetic probe, but GM didn't install a dedicated crank sensor.

Of course, you could set timing on a spark-ignited engine too--comparing the spark impulse in the plug wire to the crank sensor at the damper. Again, GM installed a holder for the probe, but no sensor.

The tool has a readout for degrees of advance, and RPM.

Photo of my second MT1480, set-up for spark ignition timing.