MikeG	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#11
Quite a regular Joined: 2009/4/17 9:49 Last Login : 2013/9/9 14:22 From Washington NH Group: Registered Users Posts: 34	Not sure on the threads, but it took an 8mm wrench to loosen it. A small thing but enough to piss a person off just the same-Ah well Posted on: 2009/8/14 9:41

BH	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#12
Forum Ambassador Joined: 2006/11/29 23:35 Last Login : 2/27 13:13 From Western Pennsylvania Group: Forum Ambassadors Registered Users Posts: 2845	You might wanna compare a good bleeder screw from one of the other cylinders. If the thread pitch appears to be the same, see if the old one will easily run into the port on the new cylinder, by hand. If so, I'd make a trip to the parts store just to get another bleeder screw with the same hex (and threads) as the old one - not for judging or authenticity, but just so I don't have to mess around with one additional wrench again and again! Posted on: 2009/8/14 10:06
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Owen_Dyneto	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#13
Forum Ambassador Joined: 2007/3/14 18:01 Last Login : 4/29 10:49 From New Jersey Group: Registered Users Forum Ambassadors Posts: 16629	Guys, I presume we're all joking about the judging thing. Let's be real here - first there is no real difference between 8 mm and 5/16 (both the about the same at 0.31 inches), and even if it should have been 3/8 or 0.375, no judge would ever in ten lifetimes note it, much less give a hoot. Mike - did you try 5/16 on the bleeder screw hex? It's a very common size for them and within a few thousands the same as 8 mm. Posted on: 2009/8/14 11:00

MikeG	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#14
Quite a regular Joined: 2009/4/17 9:49 Last Login : 2013/9/9 14:22 From Washington NH Group: Registered Users Posts: 34	Owen-I am kidding, but I have seen Model A guys nit pick on something as trivial as the head size and finish on bolts that you have to crawl under the car to see. Posted on: 2009/8/14 11:50

Owen_Dyneto	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#15
Forum Ambassador Joined: 2007/3/14 18:01 Last Login : 4/29 10:49 From New Jersey Group: Registered Users Forum Ambassadors Posts: 16629	Yes Mike, I've seen it too and have chuckled over it. Those Model A guys are either fortunate or unfortunate, depending on your stance, that so much data exists about those many little details. Posted on: 2009/8/14 12:03

Dave Kenney	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#16
Forum Ambassador Joined: 2006/4/23 16:14 Last Login : 2022/3/1 13:27 From Ontario, Canada Group: Forum Ambassadors Registered Users Posts: 1659	The nit pickers in the Chevrolet Corvette clubs are every bit as bad. I once had a Corvette fanatic tell me that there should be exactly 13 hog rings holding down each seat cushion cover on my '66 Stingray to be factory correct! Posted on: 2009/8/14 12:38

Dave Kenney	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#17
Forum Ambassador Joined: 2006/4/23 16:14 Last Login : 2022/3/1 13:27 From Ontario, Canada Group: Forum Ambassadors Registered Users Posts: 1659	Quote: MikeG wrote: Even the last bastions of what was once a mighty industrial empire are giving way to globalism MikeG Just imagine how citizens of the British Empire must have felt when the Whitworth system was replaced by SAE and Metric system. Posted on: 2009/8/14 12:51

MikeG	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#18
Quite a regular Joined: 2009/4/17 9:49 Last Login : 2013/9/9 14:22 From Washington NH Group: Registered Users Posts: 34	As the owner of two BSA A10s I can relate! Posted on: 2009/8/14 13:04

PackardV8	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#19
Home away from home Joined: 2006/5/30 21:28 Last Login : 2018/6/25 8:43 From USA Group: Registered Users Posts: 6734	"I once had a Corvette fanatic tell me that there should be exactly 13 hog rings holding down each seat cushion cover on my '66 Stingray to be factory correct!" Should have told him: Yes, but only because Chevrolet was too cheap to 14 hog rings. Posted on: 2009/8/14 13:23
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PackardV8	Re: @#*&%*# Metric!	#20
Home away from home Joined: 2006/5/30 21:28 Last Login : 2018/6/25 8:43 From USA Group: Registered Users Posts: 6734	Mike G. Just out of curisoity what is the name of your Parts store???? Posted on: 2009/8/14 13:31
	VAPOR LOCK demystified: See paragraph SEVEN of PMCC documentaion as listed in post #11 of the following thread:f https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7245