A used FL 1995 oil filter makes a pretty good knuckle seal install driver. No modification necessary, slides right over the stub shaft and is about the perfect OD to drive the seal home.

 

 

I'd like to hear the story of how you came by this discovery please.

 

Leave it to an Okie. I usually kid with that but this is pretty ingenious, so that's a compliment. Would also love to hear this story.

 

Anything starts to look like a seal tapper while flailing around in the garage in the heat of battle

PVC pipe couplers from the plumbing aisle have worked on wheel seals for me.

 

I knew an old guy who always said "A tool is everything and everything is a tool"

 

I was replacing the leaf spring and shackle bushings on the front end, and decided I would finally install those Kryptonite ball joints on the passenger side. The bushings were a bear, remind me to never do that again. So there I was exhausted drenched in sweat and sadly a little of my own blood, back aching and knees begging for mercy. I had already gotten the seal on the stub shaft ( 2" pipe worked perfect for that btw) and began the fight to get it seated in the knuckle. Previous experience has taught me how much of a pain in the tender bits it can be. First I went for the 4" close nipple, it got me close (no pun intended) but ended up being a hair to big to sink her home. I go on the hunt searching for anything to end the nightmare. A couple laps around the garage but nothing looked promising, back out to the carport checking the random bits of automotive and oilfield whatnots that's somehow accumulated there, and it catches my eye. The old filter from my last oil change set aside to drain. Oh this looks promising, so I ****** it up and size it against to 4" pipe. Looking real promising now, I check the hole thinking naw it won't fit it can't be that easy. Back over to the truck fingers crossed, and it slides over the shaft and down to the seal perfectly. A couple taps around the edge and victory is mine as I hear Skynyrd's, Simple Man play in my head.

 

I'd never take offence being called an Okie, except I ain't from Muskogee and there's nothing wrong with the way we roll our joints.

 

I hear they're too damn skinny and way too long.

 

Too long? That's just crazy. Never in the history of man, has a pothead ever complained of a joint "too long". I'll give ya too damn skinny, nobody wants to see that.

 

 

I like it. Wondering about the marketability of such an affordable and useful "tool"

 

That’s way too clean for a used FL-1995.

 

Thanks for the tip! I'm gonna use this one in week or 2 when I do ball joints. Saves me making the special tool.

As for the joint, I think the general consensus is fat and long

 

Good luck hope it works as well for you as ot did me, and remember you need water lots and lots of water.