Stripping my Series 1 Jota engine

Well, I have ordered one from JB Tools in the states. The postage is as much as the tool !

This does seem like a very essential tool to have and very hard to get. Once i am done with it, I might donate it to the ILOC so that they can lend it out to other poor suckers who find themselves in this position. Perhaps it will result in good karma and make sure the Laverda gods are on my side during this rebuild. 
 
Wolfgang was the one that told me about the Grey Pneumatic tool. I actually have a home-made 32mm extra deep socket, just like Piet's suggestion, that I use on the left side of the crank, but I made that as a callow youth 45 years ago. I no longer have access to welding equipment.
And Paul, you're right, the 1/2 inch square holes at the other end of most of the extra deep sockets aren't big enough for the end of the crank to go through. You have to bore or file them out round and big enough to let the crank end pass through. But then it's hard to attach the rattle gun  :D :D.
The Grey Pneumatic socket is just long enough so you don't need to modify it. I'd like to know where Wolfgang came across it.

Ken
 
I saw that one and wondered if it might be ok. I subsequently discovered that it is not as long as the 2036xmd model, which is longer by about an inch if memory serves. It's that  'X' factor i guess.
 
I didn't want to cut up my only 36mm socket, and I'm too cheap to go and buy one so I made a very rough looking tube spanner out of a piece of water pipe.

Rummaged around in my scrap metal heap and found a bit of pipe about the right size. It was a wee bit small so I had to cut 6 slits in the end to splay it out a bit. Bashed it into a hex shape using a piece of square bar as an anvil, then welded up the cuts. The bashing process produced a few cracks that also needed welding up, which is what the circumferential weld bead is for. Welded a nut on the end so I could use a normal socket and rattle gun. Looks like shit but it worked perfectly.

Total cost: $0  :D  (well, maybe a few cents worth of welding rods)
 

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I saw this available in Pommyland, https://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/products/36mm-1-2-drive-extra-deep-impact-socket-120mm-long. The Grey Pneumatic socket is about 127.8 mm long, but it has about ~19 mm clearance above the end of the crank with the nut screwed in tight. The Orbital Fasteners socket is only about 8mm shorter, so it should be just fine.
But, thanks to the bug, Orbital Fasteners appears to be closed. And their socket is bloody expensive, 61 pounds. The American one may be cheaper even with shipping.

Ken
 
mcnicol said:
Wouldn't recommend that one, the 2036MD is long but not as long as the 2036XMD. And it's only just long enough (unless Paul gets to it with his round files :D :D).

Ken
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Long gone Ken.
Engine well on the way to autopsy.

Paul
 
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