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Technical | How To / Re: variator locking tool
« on: May 22, 2024, 11:12:58 PM »The one Stig linked to is the type I bought. If you're handy, I dare say you could fabricate your own? Some on here have done that.That's what I did! Can't find the picture but nohing more than two stout flat bars about two feet long, both with a hole at each end. I used M6 bolts and nuts, three of each. One for a pivot at one end, one each at the other. No nuts on the two for the variator (front), nuts on the two so you can stick the heads in the clutch drum.
You don't have to hold this thing! The ends joined by at one bolt just rests on the floor. The "stout bar" dimensions are about 1/4" x 3/4" mild steel, cold rolled better but hot rolled just as well.