Kent-moore Corporation

Sealed Power Corporation

Lawrence A Provost

Robert D Boyer

A device for selecting shims to take up the end play of bearings in an automotive power train such as the bearings in the transaxle. The shim selector assembly consists of a bridge with supporting legs, a gauging cylinder and a gauge plunger telescoped in the gauging cylinder. The bridge is placed on the mating surface of the cover of the transaxle housing and the gauging cylinder projected into and bottomed on the face of the bore in the housing cover for the bearing. The gauging cylinder is fixed in place with a set screw. The gauge plunger is now telescoped in the gauge cylinder. Thereafter the bridge and gauging cylinder assembly is inverted and with the legs resting on the mating face of the housing, the gauge plunger is brought into contact with the face of the bearing being measured for end play. The gap between the upper end of the gauge plunger and the lower end of the gauging cylinder measures the thickness of the shim which is of the proper thickness to take up the end play in the bearing.

Shim selector

This invention relates to a tool for uniformly compressing a non-resilient metal ring to a smaller diameter which comprises an outer hollow receiver provided with a handle for manually holding the receiver against turning, a threaded shaft in the receiver which at its one end within the receiver has rotatably mounted thereon a collet which upon being drawn into the receiver by rotation of the threaded shaft causes the fingers of the collet by engagement with the inner wall of the receiver to move inwardly or toward each other to thereby uniformly compress to a smaller diameter a metal ring mounted in the ends of the collet fingers.

Ring compressor tool

A tool for installing an oil seal for an internal combustion engine crankshaft wherein an adapter is affixed to the end of the crankshaft having a cylindrical guide surface upon which the seal is initially located axially positioning the seal in alignment with a recess in which it is to be received. A ram axially movable upon the adapter is translated by a wing nut to displace the seal from the adapter guide surface into the seal recess while maintaining the proper orientation of the seal throughout the entire installation procedure.

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Warren, MI, United States of America

Lawrence A Provost