Before you run to the store... 1/2 inch = 13mm for all practical purposes (maybe you forgot). :-)
Tom C. >From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: PDML <[email protected]> >Subject: OT --A shocking story >Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:00:39 -0400 > >Well, I need to change the shocks on my S-10 Blazer. So I bought the >shocks and put the trunk up on jack stands. 4 hours latter I have one >rear shock off. Then I start on the other rear shock. The bolts on top >of the mount towers are the problem, you need to reach up and over and >hold a 13mm wrench on the bolt, while needing two hands on the ratchet >to remove the rusted nut. > >Now a little simple math will tell you that most of us are an arm short. >Back in the days when I co-owned a shop I would run it up on the lift >and just blow the nuts off with a torch and replace the nut and bolt >with new ones. However these days I have to lay on my back under the >truck in the apartment parking lot. So it is a beach reaching up there. > >Anyway to make a long story short, I lost my grip on the 13mm wrench. >Apparently it fell down between the gas tank and the gas tank skid >plate. No problem you say? Just pull off the skid plate? Well, I would, >but it takes a 13mm wrench... > >So I will have to make a trip to the store tomorrow for another wrench, >and while I am at it I will get some new bolts and nuts too. > >-graywolf > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
