I've made many a tool over the years to help with a task or reduce the cost from purchasing a speciality tool...
But nothing was easier to make or cheaper ($1.00) that made the task of installing the circlips so easy! Hats off to FSG for the tool post :up:
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http://harleytechtalk.com/htt/index.php/topic,1084.msg8814.html#msg8814 (http://harleytechtalk.com/htt/index.php/topic,1084.msg8814.html#msg8814)
That's how I installed mine, first one went right in, second one took a few tries.
Good to know!
I use my fingers and a small flat blade screw driver. I tried the "copper coupling tool" once and did not see any advantage but then I have been putting in wrist pin clips in for years, (decades!), with my method.