Cusser
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Location: Hot Arizona
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 Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: cylinder head stud size |
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| Eric&Barb wrote: |
| EG Toyota makes 12 mm hex copper exhaust nuts, that are the cat's meow for fitting onto VW exhaust systems. |
Toyota, Nissan, etc. use JIS (Japanese) size hardware. Their 8mm x 1.25mm thread stuff takes 12mm wrench. I can get some JIS stuff at Ace Hardware near me, or one can go to Toyota, Nissan, etc. parts desk.
For example, I use JIS nuts on my DP manifold studs.
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