Sadly, my 70's Aus-delivered Patrols that I've been dismantling have bothmdawg4x4 wrote:I know everything we do today is metric, but I can only imagine the confusion building metric and standard bodies on the same line. It is hard enough to keep 8mm bolts that use 12mm sockets separated from 8mm bolts that use 13mm sockets both used for the same application just different vehicles made on the same line! And maybe after the Patrol quit coming to the US, all were assembled using metric hardware.
I worked in a auto collision body shop years ago and remember having mixed, metric and standard, bolts and nuts on the same vehicle!
PS ( and slightly off topic ) - to add to the bell housing / clutch arrangement, my second "what were they thinking" Patrol-ism is the front end of the rear propshaft...thou must have a crows-foot 5/8" spanner, or a metric butt-ton of patience !
cheers,
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