I made a new gadget today

[88b]

Good idea , simple too 

[BUBBIE]

Ray,

Your holes bottoming out ssmooooooth for the lifters:

Look Better than my finished Machined end for the Pressure relief valve seating  on my first stock camplate... (replaced with an "A" plate)

Nice to have needed things like that Holder AND Time to build it... 

signed....BUBBIE

[Buffalo]

Hi No Cents  Your really lucky to "find" a piece of scrap aluminum 2 x2 x 6 ". Around here, I would being paying at least $25 for this "scrap".
Anyway, it came out really nice as a useful of the tool inventory. Maybe I can find an old pc of 2 x4 to make a wooden version - hehe.  Buffalo

[FSG]

I also have some 1/8" thick flat soft rubber sheets laying around. I might just cut them to size and stuff it down into the holes.
I took a permanent Sharpie paint stick marker and highlighted the stamped lettering so I could see them better.

[masstch]

Wait... shouldn't the holes be canted like the actual lifter bores? I mean, you don't want all the oil pooling in the centers and such.









Couldn't help it. It looks great. Let me know when it hits the market!

[rageglide]

Looks good, how will you keep fiddlers from spinning them in bores?  Maybe when this one wears out you could put the anti-rotation pins to good use.  :-)

[No Cents]

 no fiddlers allowed in the barn...just banjo and guitar players only. 

Ray

[rageglide]

 

[Ohio HD]

you misspelled ate 

     

[rigidthumper]

Any thought about cross drillin a passageway to pre-fill the lifters before assy? Easy to do with a jobbers length drill and a small fitting.

[No Cents]

 no Robin...the lifter holes in the gadget are over sized (7/8") to let the lifters sit down in it loosely. I only drilled the holes 1.650" deep into the 2" aluminum bar stock. It's basically just a holding tool to keep everything in the order it came out of the bike.
I've preloaded my lifters for years with a clear rubber hose attached to the cup end of the lifter so I can submerge them under oil and pull the oil thru them with my shop vac.

Ray

[Beave]

Nice piece.  I made one similar (OK, not near as nice as this one) a few years ago for my lifter eating Evo.  I used oak, and added four holes for the pushrods.  They are a real help keeping parts in their original locations/orientations.