Prowler V6

[Pat Ford]

Previously, you (Bill Edgeworth) wrote:
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> > Man Bill,
> >
> > You SURE know your sae to Metric conversions!
> >
> > That sounds about right!
> >
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> I've been working on European built plastics machinery for many years, all
> metric. a lot of the metric stuff Snap-On does not even make (try buying a 65
> mm wrench from Snap-On) have to buy German stuff (they don't make theirs out
> of unobtanium)

I think I saw one ( in the snapon cat.) years ago

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> > And seeing as how most of freds rides are American built n all, I'd have
> > to say that he was REALLY only 3/4 serious...
> >
> >
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> A lot of newer american cars are now using a mix of metric and standard in
> their cars. Oddly though these sizes seem different than what standards are in
> the rest of the world. For instance most european hex head fasteners have head
> sizes 10,13,17,19,22,24,27mm not sizes like 15 mm and 18 mm

french cars really suck for oddball sizes, most of the Canadian built GMs
went to semi metric some time around '80. 

> Anybody know why? are these maybe JIS (Japanese) as opposed to DIN (German)
> standards?
> Or did the american auto manufacturers buy stock in the tool companies?

I think they wanted all the tools to be supplied by them, not just diagnostic
stuff 

> Bill Edgeworth
> 

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