How much should I charge for a pulley install tool?
How much should I charge for a pulley install tool? I just became an LS1tech sponsor today!!! 
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I'll have chrome/polished parts, carbon fiber/kevlar parts for Corvettes and F-bodies... and some do-it-yourself kits like coil pack relocation kits and !wire kits..
I'd like to offer a tool that is basically a piece of all-thread and a nut/washer that will make installing crank pullies much easier/ salfer for the threads.
What price should the pulley install tool be? What is the price from other vendors... I can't find a tool listed anywhere?
Thanks.... and start saving your pennies!
~Joshua
The website should be up by the end of this week so please be patient.I'll have chrome/polished parts, carbon fiber/kevlar parts for Corvettes and F-bodies... and some do-it-yourself kits like coil pack relocation kits and !wire kits..
I'd like to offer a tool that is basically a piece of all-thread and a nut/washer that will make installing crank pullies much easier/ salfer for the threads.
What price should the pulley install tool be? What is the price from other vendors... I can't find a tool listed anywhere?
Thanks.... and start saving your pennies!
~Joshua 
Originally Posted by ski23
one guy was makin a damn nice installer and selling for like $40+ shipping.
The stock bolt costs $4 but the correct tool sure as hell isn't that cheap.
$25, you'll sell them faster than you can make them. I'll be able to pimp you like crazy. 
I might pick up a coil relocation kit from you.
Which wires are you using with them?
I might pick up a coil relocation kit from you.
Which wires are you using with them?
Originally Posted by TheBlurLS1
$25, you'll sell them faster than you can make them. I'll be able to pimp you like crazy.
I might pick up a coil relocation kit from you.
Which wires are you using with them?
I might pick up a coil relocation kit from you.
Which wires are you using with them?
Customer chooses wires.... (Taylor 8mm any color, Taylor 10.4mm blue only, or MSD 8.5mm red or black)
I'll sell the brackets, supplies, and color instructions for about $50 and the customer chooses the wires/ends from the Summit cataloque (they have wires cheaper than I can get them. I'll help you get the type of wires you want.)
Here's a couple shots of the prototype mass production kit I did....
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Originally Posted by RrCoX22
a little confused... it's $50 for the relocation kit and supplies and then plus $$$ for the wires?
either ways i think you got yourself $50 from my pocket
either ways i think you got yourself $50 from my pocket
I'll have the part numbers for whatever type of wires the customer decides on and they can order them direct from Summit. It's cheaper for the customer and that's why I started this, to give LSx people more options at the lowest possible price.
~Joshua 
Originally Posted by FIREHAWK#608
Don't suppose you know his screen name?
The stock bolt costs $4 but the correct tool sure as hell isn't that cheap.
The stock bolt costs $4 but the correct tool sure as hell isn't that cheap.
Not the stock bolt, a longer version. Like said above there is a guy making some kind of tool. I just think the longer bolt is the best way to do it.
The pulley tool is free from autozone (rental), But I would sell it for ~$25. People would buy it, I might would if I had to do a lot of them. Those coil pack relocation brackets are nice looking. I'd buy them for $50, so would lots of other people.
Originally Posted by 777
The pulley tool is free from autozone (rental), But I would sell it for ~$25. People would buy it, I might would if I had to do a lot of them. Those coil pack relocation brackets are nice looking. I'd buy them for $50, so would lots of other people.
I'll give you my take on it since I've sold a few. https://ls1tech.com/forums/tools-fabrication/467329-original-pulley-install-tools-f-s.html Several years ago I decided to make some pulley tools to sell here after needing one myself and seeing people screwing up crank threads installing pulleys with bolts. I made a batch of 30 tools. Decided to sell them for $25 shipped. I figured that after seeing people paying $30~$35 for Larry's spring tool, people would pay $25 for a good quality pulley installer to keep in their tool box. I was making about $10 per tool after figuring in all expenses in making and shipping them. I took so much abuse on here for what I was charging compared to the $4 longer bolt you could buy that when I sold out the 30 tools I made, I quit selling them. Then early this year there seemed to be a rash of crank threads getting screwed up again and I decided to make another batch of tools again so MAYBE people would use them and quit screwing up their cranks. I made 24 more tools in Feb 06 and I still have 8 sitting on the shelf. Even though the other guy's tool sells for about $10 more than mine, people see it as looking fancier and seem to want it instead. The problem I see with his tool is you have to use a wrench to install the pulley and I like using a deep socket with a long handled ratchet to get more leverage. I get a lot of PM about my tool, but when I tell them it is $25 shipped, I never hear from them again. As soon as these last few tools I have are gone, I'm done. Just not worth it. Buying quality materials to make them is not cheap. Good luck selling them here.