I keep a couple of Thorsen dog bone wrenches under the seat with vise grips,needle nose pliers,screw drives. they're magnetised and stay quiet under way. for travels beyond home area I of course carry a more inclusive socket set. for absolute worst case scenario there's plastic ... =(:D) ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris S. <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 6:31 PM Subject: Re: Most common Nuts 'n Bolts? It does not seem worthwhile to save a few grams of weight and risk not having the correct tool on the side of the road. Get a set of 10-19mm sockets, shallow and deep well, and be done with it. Also carry a pipe for leverage, which helps when changing a flat. I store these and other essential tools in a small tool box which fits nicely under the rear seat. Chris. Wysłane z iPhone'a Dnia Dec 21, 2011 o godz. 12:58 Daniel Rotblatt <d.rotblatt@VERIZON.NET> napisał(a): > I do have a set of standard I got at a yard sale that goes up to 1" bolts - way small for railroad, but great self defence :-> > > So far we've got 13, 15, 17mm wrenches...would that be M8, M10, bolts (the charts don't even show a 15mm wrench)? I looked up a chart and there's different wrench head sizes: ANSI/ISO, DIN, etc. Now I'm more confused :-( No problem when I working on the car, I just find the socket/wrench that works. Maybe I jsut opened up a can of worms... > > Dan > Los Angeles, CA > "Winky" the '85 Westy Weekender > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Jim Felder wrote: > >> Thread size, of course. Don't you have a set of wrenches for metric >> locomotives? >> >> : ) >> >> Jim >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John C... <yacoltyayhoo@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Are we talking wrench size or thread size? ;o) >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Jabin Newhouse <jabin_n@hotmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dan, i am the one that asked the "nuts/bolts" question... >>>> >>>> as a very amateur vw owner...i rely on manauls, blog, and trusted website >>>> instructions for repairs so those instructions they actually say "use a >>>> 15mm wrench...use a 17mm wrench" depending on which repair you are doing. >>>> >>>> in my limited time working on my '87 vanagon...i normally see 13mm, 15mm, >>>> & 17mm nuts/bolts. but i am sure others in the group can add much more >>>> insight. >>>> >>> |
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