P38A Imperial Nuts & Bolts

[pwood999]

Guys,
Just about to buy a new 5/8" socket for my head bolts, but wondering what other Imperial sizes are used on the V8 engine ? Most stuff seems to be metric so far.

Pete

 

[wammers]

Guys,
Just about to buy a new 5/8" socket for my head bolts, but wondering what other Imperial sizes are used on the V8 engine ? Most stuff seems to be metric so far.

Pete

Make sure it is single hex not twelve point. Impact sockets are good for head bolts.

 

[pete1987RRC]

Buy a set of af sockets n spammers, it's all AF other than the EFI which is Bosch so it's in metric.

 

[Grrrrrr]

Go

Guys,
Just about to buy a new 5/8" socket for my head bolts, but wondering what other Imperial sizes are used on the V8 engine ? Most stuff seems to be metric so far.

Pete

Got A 6 point one off ToolsToday or similar by Chinese sounding firm but Wammers says they're Swedish. Having a bad day for names today. Tent I think the brand was.

 

[Grrrrrr]

MrGorsky has one round the corner from you if you are stuck.

 

[Grrrrrr]

Go


Got A 6 point one off ToolsToday or similar by Chinese sounding firm but Wammers says they're Swedish. Having a bad day for names today. Tent I think the brand was.

Bloody autocorrect. Teng not bloody tent.

 

[wammers]

Go


Got A 6 point one off ToolsToday or similar by Chinese sounding firm but Wammers says they're Swedish. Having a bad day for names today. Tent I think the brand was.

Teng Tools are Swedish. If that's what you mean.

 

[Grrrrrr]

It keeps changing Wammers to Dammers too. Is that even a word?

 

[Grrrrrr]

It keeps changing Wammers to Dammers too. Is that even a word?

One who builds dams, I guess.

 

[wammers]

It keeps changing Wammers to Dammers too. Is that even a word?

Try Sir less chance of error.

 

[Grrrrrr]

Try Sir less chance of error.

I thought you worked for a living?

 

[wammers]

I thought you worked for a living?

No fear, packed that up when i was 53.

 

[Dopey]

get a set for Halfords, they do great sets at good prices, if you have trade card then you get big savings, I took my series II apart and put it back with a simple set from them, highly recommended

 

[wammers]

get a set for Halfords, they do great sets at good prices, if you have trade card then you get big savings, I took my series II apart and put it back with a simple set from them, highly recommended

Don't think there would much metric stuff on a Series II. Do Halfrauds do any proper spanner sizes other than metric?

 

[Dopey]

They do the proper English sizes as well as the foreign ones

 

[wammers]

They do the proper English sizes as well as the foreign ones

OK.

 

[Grrrrrr]

get a set for Halfords, they do great sets at good prices, if you have trade card then you get big savings, I took my series II apart and put it back with a simple set from them, highly recommended

Unfortunately Halfrauds pretty much only do 12 point these days. It is "the trend" apparently. Hence why I had to buy a single socket after the first (Halfords one) split trying to undo a head bolt!

 

[kds]

Never seen Whitworth or BSF in there.

They do the proper English sizes as well as the foreign ones

 

[Dopey]

Been a long time since I bought tool from there, used to at one time do most sizes

 

[MrGorsky]

Guys,
Just about to buy a new 5/8" socket for my head bolts, but wondering what other Imperial sizes are used on the V8 engine ? Most stuff seems to be metric so far.

Pete

Don't buy one borrow mine. I bought a standard and deep Teng impact socket for the same job a few months ago and you're welcome to borrow them.

I found pretty much everything was imperial on the engine as far back as the exhaust headers, and then the rest of the car was metric. I just have a Halfords professional socket set, and the imperial sockets that came with that were all I needed.

You need quite a long and slim bi-hex for the rocker covers IIRC. I can't remember the size I'm afraid.