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Re: Nuts and Bolts

To: "Victor Laury" <vlaury@earthlink.net>,
Subject: Re: Nuts and Bolts
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:50:18 -0500
Somebody should have 'retapped' his brain, IF he had one.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Laury" <vlaury@earthlink.net>
To: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>; "Paul Bauman"
<plhbauman@earthlink.net>; "'Conley Phillips'" <lonestar@cmc.net>
Cc: "Autox (E-mail)" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Nuts and Bolts


> >NY Mike Wrote - As you said some mechanics or POs must have retapped them
> in their ignorance or incompetence.
>
> Is that what you call it? retapped? I had the experience of working on a
> hapless 66 in which some LOSER had FORCED 8X1.25 nuts onto every carb
stud,
> where once a 5/16 NF once fit. It wasn't pretty. I could almost hear him
in
> his misguided efforts as I attempted to reverse his damage - "This IS a
> Jap-O-Nese car, I woonder why these here Met-ric nuts is sooo tight?"

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