Posted by NCWayne on March 08, 2015 at 09:50:29 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: No metric wrenches? posted by Notjustair on March 08, 2015 at 07:43:49:
I just replaced the front engine cover on a 6400 JD. The majority of fasteners on the engine were standard, but the fasteners on the sheet metal, etc were all metric.
The topper in the whole deal, to me, was the 3 fasteners that held the belt tensioner on. The bolt end that went into the engine was a standard 3/8 coarse thread, but the stud attached to the head of the bolt was metric. In other words you had both standard and metric on the same fastener.
Along those same lines, you've got to look out for standard fasteners with metric head stamps. I've fun into quite a few bolts that had standard threads, but the head stamps were either the usual 8.8, or the 10.9's that you usually see on the metric stuff.
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