10mm....10mm...10mm
10-23-2008, 09:42 AM
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10mm....10mm...10mm
How many times have you needed to turn a bolt on your 3rd gen 4runner, end up dragging out all your various metric tools, only to find out that damn near EVERY bolt is a 10mm?
Makes things simple, I guess.
Makes things simple, I guess.
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10-23-2008, 10:50 AM
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i never have the problem. between my toyotas and honda atv/mx/street bikes ive learned to look and tell. i never use anything but 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17. i swear thats the only ones you need.
10-23-2008, 11:11 PM
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I could almost get by with one set of metric tools between the Yota and my BMW. Almost everything on the Yota uses even metrics, and the Bimmer uses almost all odds!
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10-25-2008, 02:54 PM
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true. Every time I bought sets I would throw the odd ones in a box in the basement cuz I never used them. Then I got my bimmer and had to go searching for the box...my toolbox just doubled in weight
10-27-2008, 10:21 PM
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Its 12mm on my 80's pickups. Damn near everything is 12mm or sometimes 14, i dont have a problem tho i can usually tell by looking at them once in a blue moon i am wrong.
10-27-2008, 11:40 PM
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90% of sockets on all import cars of any year and newer domestic cars are 8, 10, 12, 14, and 17. actually all manufacturers were suppost to only use metric bolts for generic vehicle parts begining in the mid 80's, but most domestic companies are too stuborn. Ford and Chrystler are the worst...
10-28-2008, 12:21 AM
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I had an old supervisor that always used to give me crap about driving a "jap scrap" Toyota (in good fun).
Caught him working on his early '90s Chevy PU one day. He was bitchin' a blue streak trying to find the right wrench to work on his alternator. Turned out that engine stuff was metric, and chassis stuff was SAE. I just "mentioned" that at least my truck only needed one set of tools!
Oh, if looks could kill!!!
Caught him working on his early '90s Chevy PU one day. He was bitchin' a blue streak trying to find the right wrench to work on his alternator. Turned out that engine stuff was metric, and chassis stuff was SAE. I just "mentioned" that at least my truck only needed one set of tools!
Oh, if looks could kill!!!
11-02-2008, 11:39 AM
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When I started wrenching on Mazda's in 86 they were like that; everything was 10, 12, 14, 17 and 19mm. Towards the end of my carreer with Mazda, in 98, I would have just about every tool in my box out on my cart just to do the simplest of repairs. I even found out what that 5.5mm socket was for, lol. This was primarily due to Fords' purchase and susiquent influence in the Mazda line. In 98 I rolled my toolbox down the street to Toyota and never looked back. I was plesantly surprised at how much the Toyota's we're like working on the Mazda's in the old days.
