1/2 inch is 12.7mm more than different enough to not fit on a nut, or round one off...
Tom C wrote: > 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 >> > > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
