Prowler V6

[Gary Derian]

Anything GM did new since 1973 has been metric.  The old stuff like small
blocks are SAE.  Newer stuff like transmissions and body parts are metric.
Eventually (probably by now) everything will be metric.

Gary Derian <gderian at oh.verio.com>

> > Man Bill,
> >
> > You SURE know your sae to Metric conversions!
> >
> > That sounds about right!
> >
>
> 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)
>
> > 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...
> >
> >
>
> 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
> 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?
>
> Bill Edgeworth