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Ya never know-phone a couple of tire shops and see if they know the bolt pattern specs. If I remember right the ol F150's are a 5 on 5 1/2". Which means 5 lugs, 5 1/2" apart-across.
97 jeep might be metric, and Im guessing a smaller pattern-more so of the little 80's rangers, or even the full size 70's Ford cars.
97 jeep might be metric, and Im guessing a smaller pattern-more so of the little 80's rangers, or even the full size 70's Ford cars.
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The older and larger jeeps (comanche) were 5x5.5. The wranglers were 5x4.5 (F-100 & Ranger pickup) for a while - but as some said - they may have gone metric now.
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Adapt, my friend. As I learned back in the '60s, it is better to have a tool, and not need it- than to need it, and not have it. I have a seperate tool system for all the non-normal sizes, and some 'custom' (my made) wrenches/tools to get by on. (Cummins engines come to mind). I don't complain, I just try and keep up. It makes it easier on me when the situation presents itself. (If it's beyond my scope, I say so, and accept it. (Shop-Tyme!) (The front-wheel-drive vans come to mind...
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I have a buddy who to this day borrows metric tools because he doesn't have that many and kind of refuses to buy them - which I REALLY don't understand. He spends more time driving to places to borrow tools...
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I have always had vehicles that are older than '71, so I didn't really have a need for specialized metric tools. I am into snowmobiling, needing mostly metric tools, but none of them specialized. I have some end wrenches and sockets. When I married my wife who brought along a '99 Explorer, which is part metric/part sae. I hate working on it because I have twice as many tools to pick from to find the correct sizes. Luckily I don't have to do much to it. I use a "roundy-round-wrench" (adustable-end-wrench, notorious for rounding off heads of stubborn bolts) on the oil plug because I cannot remember which size it is. I have a special wrench I inherited from my grandfather that is the correct size for oil plug on my "real" American trucks. I believe it is a 7/8".
I do justify buying tools for it when it needs fixed. I can buy a lot of tools for the price of shop labor.
Don't take most of my opinions too serious, I am a very "not serious" sarcastic person.
I do justify buying tools for it when it needs fixed. I can buy a lot of tools for the price of shop labor.Don't take most of my opinions too serious, I am a very "not serious" sarcastic person.
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Some metric and standard wrenches can work on either for example:
5/16" - 8mm
7/16" - 11mm
1/2" - 13mm
9/16" - 14mm
5/8" - 16mm
11/16" - 17mm
3/4" - 19mm
13/16" - 21mm
7/8" - 22mm
I may have missed some.
5/16" - 8mm
7/16" - 11mm
1/2" - 13mm
9/16" - 14mm
5/8" - 16mm
11/16" - 17mm
3/4" - 19mm
13/16" - 21mm
7/8" - 22mm
I may have missed some.
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I've had metrics since high school because of motorcycles. When in my 20's I had a succession of VW's, Triumphs a Toyota Hilux and a Datsun, oh and an MG. With the Kids bikes, motorcycles, and the newer vehicles, I can't imagine not having them..