P38A Imperial Nuts & Bolts

pwood999 · Jun 4, 2016

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 · Jun 4, 2016

pwood999 said:
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 · Jun 4, 2016

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 · Jun 4, 2016

Go

pwood999 said:
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 · Jun 4, 2016

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

Grrrrrr · Jun 4, 2016

Grrrrrr said:
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 · Jun 4, 2016

Grrrrrr said:
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 · Jun 4, 2016

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

Grrrrrr · Jun 4, 2016

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

One who builds dams, I guess.

wammers · Jun 4, 2016

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

Try Sir less chance of error.

Grrrrrr · Jun 4, 2016

wammers said:
Try Sir less chance of error.

I thought you worked for a living?

wammers · Jun 4, 2016

Grrrrrr said:
I thought you worked for a living?

No fear, packed that up when i was 53.

Dopey · Jun 4, 2016

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 · Jun 4, 2016

Dopey said:
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 · Jun 4, 2016

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

wammers · Jun 4, 2016

Dopey said:
They do the proper English sizes as well as the foreign ones

OK.

Grrrrrr · Jun 4, 2016

Dopey said:
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 · Jun 5, 2016

Never seen Whitworth or BSF in there.

Dopey said:
They do the proper English sizes as well as the foreign ones

Dopey · Jun 5, 2016

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

MrGorsky · Jun 5, 2016

pwood999 said:
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.

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