On Sun, 6 May 2001, Kirk Hillman wrote:
:David,
: Great thought. It occurred to me that I should just cut them off and
:rethread, but I was hoping to simply screw out the old ones and screw in new
:ones that are shorter. In a perfect world it would be easier. :-) I don't
:have a full set of taps and dies so I won't have one to match, what is the
:thread on those do you suppose?
5/16-24, I think. Might be 5/16-18, if they're not fine threaded. It's
really worth having a decent set of dies (and taps, but I use dies much more
often on the the rover) to work on the Land-Rover. The fairly complete set of
SAE taps and dies, including a tap holder, die wrench and thread pitch
do-hickey was about $50 bucks from Sears. I run just about every bolt
through a die before I put it back on, makes reassembly and the next
diassembly much easier.
David
-- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad.
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