Oil pump installation tool

• US 5,065,487 A
• Filed: 09/19/1988
• Issued: 11/19/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yother, Cecil
• Original Assignee: Yother, Cecil
• Inventors: Yother, Cecil
• Primary Examiner(s): SWANN, JUDY J
• Application Number:
  US07/245,697
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• Field of Search: 29/275, 29/276, 29/277
• US Class Current: 292/75
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/0035 for motor-vehicles wrenches for mounting or dismounting wheels B60B29/003
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/02 for connecting objects by press fit or detaching same B25D1/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/0879 Roller

Abstract

An automobile engine oil pump pickup tube installation tool for driving an oil pump pick up tube into an oil pump mounted in an engine block with a force fit, the tool having a slot formed in one end thereof with a hardened metal end plate at the end of the slot for engaging the tube of the oil pump.

Claims

1. An oil pump pickup tube installation tool comprising

a driver portion having a slot formed in one end thereof and extending for only a portion of the length of said driver, and

an end plate with the same peripheral configuration as said driver portion made of hardened metal removably secured to the slotted end of said driver and having a U-shaped notch formed therein and aligned with said slot.

2. The oil pump pickup tube installation tool of claim 1 wherein the driver portion and the end plate are cylindrical and the same diameter.

3. The oil pump pickup tube installation tool of claim 1 including an end cap which fits over the end plate and has a U-shaped notch formed therein of a smaller size than the one in said end plate and aligned therewith.