Home made feeler gauge - Cheapo Island

[justesen]

After waitng months and months to hear if Island is going to make some feeler gauges, I decided to "putz" around myself. Take a look.



What you are look at are a couple of home made Island knock offs that took about 15 minutes to fabricate. The material is 5/8" wide pallet strapping material, about a 12" length will do. The "locking mechanism" on the tool is the criming piece that is used with the strapping material. It is very easy to make and you can pretty much customize length to fit your needs.

The next shot at a feeler gauge tool is even more simple.



It's an X-Acto knife and you will note that it uses our hosts .004 blades bent at a 90 degree angle. Just be sure the X-Acto knife that you use has a collett that has be split both ways, i.e. as you look at the collett it looks like a + sign.

How will they work? I'm not sure as I'm still trying to work up the nerve to do my first valve adjustment!

Jay
77 911S 36,500 ORIGINAL MILES!

[Paulporsche]

Nice idea.

Let us know how it works.

Paul

[JLS - 911E]

Jay:

Both nice ideas, I just picked up a Gasket Kit (Silicone Bead) for my 70, to stop the self changing oil feature. And I'm going to attemp my 1st valve adjustment also, I'll have to give them a shot.

[Wil Ferch]

An improvement I'd like to see is a blade that is not quite as wide as the current ones..either P213 or the Island tool. Some locations are very tight to get the feeler gage in-place alongside the elephants foot. Something about 80-90% as wide as stock should do the trick, and still be wide enough to be a useful tool.
---Wil

[justesen]

Originally posted by Wil Ferch
An improvement I'd like to see is a blade that is not quite as wide as the current ones..either P213 or the Island tool. Some locations are very tight to get the feeler gage in-place alongside the elephants foot. Something about 80-90% as wide as stock should do the trick, and still be wide enough to be a useful tool.
---Wil

Will,

Using the X-Acto knife, you could do this easily. Just trim the blade to the width that you want.

Jay
77 911S

[Zeke]

Very, very clever.

[vash]

i have some feeler guage stock that would work perfect in that second unit. it is pointy! only problem, everything in the bridge bolting specs required five thousanths spacing. if i find any fours, i will mail you some.