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.

 

never

 

With your 4runner, I'm suprised.

 

I can look at the bolt heads and know if it is 8, 10, 12 or 14mm. You can take apart almost a whole car with those sockets lol.

Rob

 

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.

 

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!

 

X2

its the first size out

 

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

 

That's true. The 10 mm always seems to be missing for some strange reason... I swear, there's a big pile of 10mm's somewhere out in the shed.

 

Toyotas rely a lot on 10mm. But the main sizes used are 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21 (lug nuts) 22, 24, 27, 30 (cars) 34 (3rd gens) and 54.

Oh, and 13mm for running board bolts on 2nd and 3rd gens.

 

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.

 

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...

 

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!!!

 

hahaha same thing with my Kawasaki jetski!!

 

good to see I'm not the only one who appreciates both Toyota's and BMW's



nah2323
Unintentional Thread Hijacking.

 

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.

 

Well when i get My M3 this summer, you can add me to THAT list too!

 

Bimmers for the road, and Yotas for the off-road and work -- THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!!

 

And I thought Toyotas were a PITA to work on. Then came the Kawi. I know your pain.

 

My 08 has a lot of 10mm bolts as well.