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Funny, I have a fancy flywheel holder, but I always use my old trusty tool of an old leather belt screwed to a 3′ piece of 2×2! Frank has pics of one on here somewhere.
Some items I use every day are an adjustable, inline spark tester. Set the gap to 1/4" for your vintage motor. Pretty important for troubleshooting.
Compression tester as noted
Flywheel puller
Torque Wrench
A VOA meter. I don’t buy expensive ones as I break them a lot, but I do have Mercotronics and Stevens testers for when I need them.
I made my pressure tester out of an old bike pump, and attached the fitting from a gearcase oil pump to it.
Which brings me to a gearcase oil pump to CLEANLY add fluid to your gearcase. Don’t use the toothpaste style tubes of oil. Makes a mess!
Of course sockets, wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, side cutters, etc….
Consumable items like gasket sealing compound, penetrating oil (deep creep, PB Blaster, KROIL), Parts Cleaner
Manuals, parts and service. Members can help you with this. PM me with your email address.
Compressor very helpful if you have one. Removing flywheel nuts, cleaning carbs, drying parts, etc….
Most stuff you will build as you go, as you need it. There is plenty more which is helpful, depending on how far you get into the hobby, but items like this will get you going.
Most important tool is this club, and forum. Cost of that, priceless.