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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Adney wrote: > On 10 Jul 2005 at 18:21, Russ Wolfe wrote: > > >>I just came in from the shop. Re-discovering the reasons I don't like >>domestic cars. I was putting track arms in my Mother's Chevy Lumina. >>??bolts with 18mm heads?? I had to hunt like hell to find a socket. >>And, I think I need to get the central AC installed in the shop. ;=} > > > Quite a few years ago the Japanese revised their bolt head standards so that > the typical JIS bolt head is 1mm smaller than the same size DIN bolt. I read an > article about this at the time, which included an extimate of the number of > TONs of steel which this change would save over some number of years. > > Yeah, we get used to the "normal" bolts requiring 10, 13, 15, 17, & 19mm > wrenches, but the JIS bolts are now all one step down. The most common wrench > sizes on them are 12 & 14. > If you own a Honda, which you should. You'll find that 10,12,14,17,19,22,27, and 32 are everything you need. :) At least on the civic that is. I just rebuilt my steering rack this evening, and threw on new shocks/springs this evening. I went with Koni sport adjustable shocks with threaded sleeves and Eibach springs. Dang if it isn't hard to get all four corners level with this setup. Adjust one corner and it effects the others. :( Anyway the test run went ok, going to take it in for 4 wheel alignment tomorrow. I'd never thought a higher end shock would make such a huge difference in ride quality, they replaced some adjustable tokico's. - -- Mark Wolfe Lakeside, ca http://www.wolfenet.org gpg fingerprint = 42B6 EFEB 5414 AA18 01B7 64AC EF46 F7E6 82F6 8C71 <deus_x> Anyone who takes words on the screen personally should not be on IRC. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC0hIi70b35oL2jHERAp7rAJ0dJxKX1IqyVXxx6U7FpxhhPvSHLwCfb7Dq dh7s0aYG+SQIhCYwq5k5TQQ= =BtxM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~