A game of "What is it?" Warning Pics.

[jlmccuan]

Studebaker related. Jeff Rice, you got the one on my Facebook, let's see you figure this one out, lol?

[mbstude]

That's a Snap On tool box. It's where you keep the tools that you use to work on the Avantis. (Studebaker related).

[N8N]

Piston ring compressor (for one specific bore size?)

just a guess

nate

[jlmccuan]

Matt, that is sitting on a Snap-On shoe box, lol. Guess I should have put something else with it for a sense of scale.

N8N, good idea, I need to make one of those too, not that I have something similar but smaller in the pics.

[gordr]

My guess would be that it's a guide for centering the timing cover, with its felt seal, on the hub for the harmonic balancer.

[jlmccuan]

Man, you guys have some goos ideas for more stuff to make. Gordr, you have the size pretty close and it does guide something, but not rings or seals...

[woodysrods]

Speedy sleeve
Brian

[Lark Parker]

That looks like something a friend made for to me to test/use on a car for the Newport Hillclimb, Sunday, October 3.
Maybe the first one ever made.
Like old Smokey Y. said, "You can't get ahead by copying the other guys."

[rockinhawk]

Looks like a bearing race to me. NT

[jclary]

As an old industrial salesman who has sold everything from photo optic controls, air logic, cutting tools, etc. etc. My guess would be some type of "press fit" bushing.

[DEEPNHOCK]

That's good...
I was going to say it was a fart pipe for an early Stude

That looks like something a friend made for to me to test/use on a car for the Newport Hillclimb, Sunday, October 3.
Maybe the first one ever made.
Like old Smokey Y. said, "You can't get ahead by copying the other guys."

[Flashback]

First shot loks like a cam bearing.

[jlmccuan]

Several good guesses so far and a couple of hints. It does indeed go somewhere between N8N's seal guide for the crank snout and DeepnHock's fart can. It is a billet aluminum piece for a hillclimb racer to address an alignment problem as the returning famous Lark Parker notes.

Another hint. It is installed to be used while the car is running.

[mbstude]

So, Lark Parker is going racing in October?

He bounces back fast. I guess hanging out with Ted Harbit for all those years turned out to be a good thing. <G>

[Lark Parker]

I will not bore you with recovery details but am not going to make it to the hillclimb, however, one of my cars will.