cowl vent help please
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cowl vent help please
Hi can someone tell me what thread the nuts are in a 48 -52 cowl vent (the four nuts that attach the vent to it's mount) mine are gone in the one i have!! but i think they are 3/16 dia Thanks KIWI.
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Hey thanks for that Julie,will see what others have to say and go from there.Its a bit of a pain being on the other side of the world were most fasters etc are metric and you can't just head down to the local pic a part for a look!! I have been following progress on your truck over the last year or so and its looking good well done! cheers Kiwi 
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Goodluck with those fasteners Kiwi--I hear ya about mess with all the different "threads" etc. We have that here too 
. Lots of my trucks are half metric half non metric. It will probably be that for ions to come. I have two sets of tools and sometimes don't know which to use. I accept it but its an inconvenience isn't it?
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. Lots of my trucks are half metric half non metric. It will probably be that for ions to come. I have two sets of tools and sometimes don't know which to use. I accept it but its an inconvenience isn't it?Tom
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Hi all, As i'm hoping to sell our cowl vents in the USA i think i need to put the correct threads in so theres no confusion down the line!! I will see if i can post a pic of exactly what im doing asap ta for everyones input so far
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If you do I'll go out and measure mine for you. I just want to make sure we are talking about the same part.
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COWL THREADS
Hey Kiwi, I'm with Julie on this one. If you are talking about the little caged nuts under the cowl. I'm 99% sure it's a 8-32 thread, not metric. Hope this helps
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Hi well i have been tring for about two hrs to find a way to post a picture with no luck!! I HATE that im useless with this stuff, i did manage to get two pictures of the cowl vent on my gallery so please take a look in there for me Thanks Kiwi.
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And yes, those are machine screws with hex heads, not nuts, they are #8-32s by 1/2 inch. The 8-32 nuts are contained in welded on housings under the cover channel that hold them in place.
Here is a better pic of the cover installed:
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Well how about that!! Thanks Julie.Very interesting as the vent i have is very different in that the "channel" on the underside is not open on the ends like yours (must be a model change or the like) mine is a real rust trap and had a nut crimped into the hole shown in my picture but was so far gone i am unable to identify the thread!! Maybe i need to re think how we go about tooling up to make our cowl vents as your version would seem a better style. Kind regards Kiwi
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Yours did look different. I wonder if someone "fixed" it, or possibly it was a Canadian Variant that was tooled a bit different.
I know mine is stock for 51 and was NOS when I bought it to install (none there wne I bought the truck). But no doubt the theads on mone and in the parts manual specify #8-32
I know mine is stock for 51 and was NOS when I bought it to install (none there wne I bought the truck). But no doubt the theads on mone and in the parts manual specify #8-32