Ford Brake Spring Tool

[icanfixall]

Can anyone post pics of the Ford brake spring tool they have. I'm interested in the snapon tool but any tool you have thats designed for the ford springs will do.. Thanks...

 

[ah1988ford]

Is this it, let me know if the link does not work posting from my ipod my little brother put a password on my pc ... I pissed him off lol

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?item_ID=636104&group_ID=675704

 

[OLDBULL8]

This is the only one that I know of that works.

Edit; Yeah the Snapon is the one I have, was damn expensive as I recall.

 

[icanfixall]

Thats not the tool I was posting about. Its the tool for the springs that holda the brakes to the backing plate.

 

[oregon96psd]

I just hold the back of the pin to the backing plate and push in on the washer/lock deal and twist, it's only a little spring. Then for the big spring's I just use a pair of needle nose vice grip's on them and pull on them.

 

[icanfixall]

This is what I was thinking about..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SNAP-ON-3-4...aultDomain_0&hash=item1e7392e9a5#ht_220wt_734

Here is the same tool but a little cheaper...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321097875194?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_49wt_971


I just entered snapon brake spring tool in the ebay search and came up with plenty of tools for brakes.
I had a cheap shoe retaining tool that had three sides to it. The part that was used to hold the spring cups was a plastic piece. I just broke it but wraped it with wire to get thru the chevy brake job... Bought another nicer all metal tool that sucks. It wont hold the cups when you try to attach the springs to the pin.. Crazy mess... Well I wont ever be doing another brake job on that truck. Its done now and to be sold... Really hate selling the chevy because its been a great "spare truck"... Like all my other spare stuff thats finding new homes...

 

[zebrabeefj40]

I use a similar tool from KD - http://www.ebay.com/itm/KD-3499-HEA...ools&hash=item416f3ae905&vxp=mtr#ht_908wt_674 Looking at the pics of that Snap-on tool I think the KD tool is better. Gets a better grip on the spring. The KD tool could be made with a piece of square steel and a grinder if you wanna be really cheap about it.

Nick

 

[Wicked97]

I just hold the back of the pin to the backing plate and push in on the washer/lock deal and twist, it's only a little spring. Then for the big spring's I just use a pair of needle nose vice grip's on them and pull on them.

that works on a half ton but not so much on a sterling. Its a bit more of a pita.

 

[towcat]

This is what I was thinking about..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SNAP-ON-3-4...aultDomain_0&hash=item1e7392e9a5#ht_220wt_734

Here is the same tool but a little cheaper...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321097875194?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_49wt_971


I just entered snapon brake spring tool in the ebay search and came up with plenty of tools for brakes.
I had a cheap shoe retaining tool that had three sides to it. The part that was used to hold the spring cups was a plastic piece. I just broke it but wraped it with wire to get thru the chevy brake job... Bought another nicer all metal tool that sucks. It wont hold the cups when you try to attach the springs to the pin.. Crazy mess... Well I wont ever be doing another brake job on that truck. Its done now and to be sold... Really hate selling the chevy because its been a great "spare truck"... Like all my other spare stuff thats finding new homes...

here's what's left of my snap-on tool.....
the handle is nice but it's really designed for full float axles with removed hubs. our sterling hubs get in the way.
not so after my very expensive mod job and a closed end 10mm wrench. brake jobs get doen hella fast with this modded tool.

 

[riotwarrior]

here's what's left of my snap-on tool.....
the handle is nice but it's really designed for full float axles with removed hubs. our sterling hubs get in the way.
not so after my very expensive mod job and a closed end 10mm wrench. brake jobs get doen hella fast with this modded tool.

Um if not too much to ask Calvin, can you get a basic drawing/measurements out so we can make it? It must be round stock what size? bend etc...just asking...

Pleeease?

Al

 

[towcat]

Um if not too much to ask Calvin, can you get a basic drawing/measurements out so we can make it? It must be round stock what size? bend etc...just asking...

Pleeease?

Al

bending it is easy. but it's heat treated or hardened. I found out the hard way. the reason why it's now a stub is because when I attempted to "bend" the handle out of the way in a vise, the shaft snapped in two.

 

[stumiister]

Gary Ive got the very tool you speak of I bought it many years ago when I was working on cars and light trucks, if you need to borrow it send me a PM.

 

[icanfixall]

Thanks Stuart. I will ask in the future. About the broken rod.. Its probably nothing more than drill rod and it can be heated and bent easily. I got very good at making packing pulling tools in the power plant work I did for years.

 

[ah1988ford]

bending it is easy. but it's heat treated or hardened. I found out the hard way. the reason why it's now a stub is because when I attempted to "bend" the handle out of the way in a vise, the shaft snapped in two.

It snapped in two because it was still too hard, I find that tool steels are best worked at a orange color If you work them at red color its too much work If you work them at yellow color you can mess up the carbon structure (so I am told by many blacksmiths), after you get everything bent the way you want THEN you quench it in oil or water depending on the steel (bring it up to yellow critical temp where a magnet will not stick to it before you quench it), and then you temper it I find that a straw color tempering works best for most tools. I was bored this morning.

If I could get the basic dimensions of it I could hammer it out in my forge.

I think I am going to buy the brake pliers $10 at autozone and attemp to make the other tool before I tackle my brakes.

 

[bab029]

These tools would have made the brakes way easier....I was stranded and had to resort to a collection of adjustable wrenches and screwdrivers to get mine done last week....