j-d wrote:Adjusting the belts on our MerCruiser stern drive takes about 5 wrenches/sockets and some are english, others metric.And, of course that has never resulted in the use of bad language?:B
A person doesn't get very far on vehicles these days without metric tools. When I had my tool business, inch sized tools were on the wane excepting in the heavy truck, equipment & agriculture equipment fields. Not that people weren't buying some but ...
I pull the wheels on our rig every year and clean + never-seize the pilot holes and wheel hub. Nasty to be on the side of the road, as you said, trying to force a wheel off the hub! Even nastier, as have seen many times, for someone to have to come 1...
Good trick, j-d. It was common practice on Japanese car the small truck brake drums back when dinosaurs still walked the earth. If the wheel is thick enough, as with these Fords, it can work well. Never could figure out why the Japanese would thread ...
Good points, ron.ditmerI should also have strongly emphasized that nothing done or recommended by CloudDriver was wrong. I also simply wished to expand on what he might have said excepting that fingers were likely already tired from making the long p...
