The chain breaker and chain press tool is a tool box staple if you are getting into working on your motorcycles, vintage or not. It is one of those tools that expand what you can do, from shortening drive chain, breaking cam and drive chains, riveting chains, installing press style master links, and staking drive chain end pins.
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Warning
You cannot use a chain breaker and chain press tool to add links back onto a chain. Both drive chains and cam chains can always have links removed from them, but never links added.
While there are similar chain breaker and press tools out there, we have made a few improvements to our Common Motor version to make using the tool easier than ones we have tried in the past:
- We have improved the threads on it. Pressing chain links requires a lot of force, so the threads on our tool have tight tolerances that operate smoothly to keep the tool in great shape.
- Our anvils lock into the lower half. It is too common for an anvil to fall out of place while trying to position the tool to do what you need, especially when you are using it over the engine to install a cam chain master link. Our anvils friction fit to stay put while you are using the tool.
- We have replacements available for each size of press pin used in the tool so you can swap it out and keep using the tool. Press pins are a wear item in a tool like this. If you bend a pin pressing out a cam chain link or the end begins to mushroom out, contact us and we can sell you replacements in any of the 3 sizes included with our tool.
Be sure to check out the video above to learn how to set it up for specific jobs you might find yourself doing on a vintage Honda motorcycle or any other.