I have FL 120's and except for a couple of wierd threads on a few screws / bolts that aren't metric either, everything is SAE. England changed to the Metric system but not until after the last Lehman's were built. Trivia - the only countries still using the old English system are Myramar, Liberia, and the United States. After living on the boat in Mexico 6 months a year for the past 10 years I have come to love the metric system - I don't have to calculate fractions any more when I measure something, although I still can't get used to temperature in Celcius.
Richard Williams
Freedom - Hatteras 48 LRC
Freedom, our 48 LRC does have Ford Lehman 120's rather than the Detroits. How this came about I don't know, I have been told that there are a couple of others with the Lehman's but I'm not sure how many were equipped that way. I'm very happy with the Lehmans - they are pretty bulletproof. Freedom is also one of only 2 or three 48's that were built with 3 staterooms. Our LRC is a 1976, was brought to the west coast on her own bottom via the Panama Canal and lived in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Diego before we bought her. Had her in the Benicia Marina, Benicia for a while and lived aboard her for a year at Ox Bow Marina in Isleton before retiring and cruising her down the Mexican Coast in 2003. Been in Mexico ever since, cruising as far south as Zijauntaneo and up into the Sea of Cortez for a couple of times. We keep her at Paradise Village Marina in Nuevo Vallarta during the off season. We have been very happy with her seaworthiness and economy. She has taken some very heavy and challenging seas without a whimper.
We currently have a very asthetically challenged houseboat berthed at Willow Berm marina in Isleton for use in the summer when we are back in the states. I see you are from Walnut Grove - hope we can catch up with each other this summer in the delta and swap LRC "hints".
Richard Williams
Freedom, Hatteras 48 LRC
Trivia - the only countries still using the old English system are Myramar, Liberia, and the United States.
Looking at a socket set at Lowes that claims to work both inch and metric sizes with one set of sockets. Anybody ever used one of those? The sockets have a series of round bars inside instead of being hex shaped or having twelve points.
Bob
Greetings,
I posted this comment (or I at least THOUGHT I did) either here or on another thread. Buy a proper set of SAE tools. The only additions necessary to work on a metric vehicle/apparatus are a 10mm and 17mm wrench/socket. I used to fix a friend's VW beetle and did just fine with tool assortment mentioned for 99.9% of tasks. Now socket head cap screws are a different matter.
Looking at a socket set at Lowes that claims to work both inch and metric sizes with one set of sockets. Anybody ever used one of those? The sockets have a series of round bars inside instead of being hex shaped or having twelve points.
Bob
Greetings,
I posted this comment (or I at least THOUGHT I did) either here or on another thread. Buy a proper set of SAE tools. The only additions necessary to work on a metric vehicle/apparatus are a 10mm and 17mm wrench/socket. I used to fix a friend's VW beetle and did just fine with tool assortment mentioned for 99.9% of tasks. Now socket head cap screws are a different matter.
Greetings,
36mm for the flywheel nut???? What's wrong with the cold chisel and sledge method? Providing of course you stay away from the roller bearing insert.