Ha! There you go with that Mother country stuff. It's 2 pints (16oz each) to the quart, 4 quarts to the gallon (128oz) and 48 to 53 12oz bottles to a 5 gallon batch of beer. Depending on how much gets spilled! Take care -Dave

I imagine all the Canadians have given up arguing with you US guys about the advantages of the metric system.

Much easier to measure 359mm than 1 ft 2 9/64 in and a lot easier if you need to split it into 2 or 3 even lengths
Let me see now there are 12 inches in a foot and 16 fluid ounces in a pint so how do I do this again, oh yes the answer is 3 stone 5lbs 2 ounces per length



Gary - 1958 Star Customline and 1940 Ford Deluxe Hotrod

But metric is SO un-American. LOL! Besides it's no fun climbing under a car with two sets of tools..., maybe I should change all the hardware on my sixty over to the,,. Oh never mind.

-Dave

Gee, how many times are you going to have to bleed it!
Move with the times guys and gets some Chinese parts and use some Metric spanners
"Merica" needs to move into this century and discover millimetres are easy


Gary - 1958 Star Customline and 1940 Ford Deluxe Hotrod

Unfortunately today we are stuck with no other suppliers for some of our replacement parts. I had to replace the two rear wheel cylinders on my 60 truck with Chinese made. One bleeder was metric the other was US, that was five years ago and I'm still pissed. So far the cylinders have held up well.

I also have concerns about China wheel cylinders (although they may be of Bendix or Raybestos brands), as I expressed in one of my other posts.  So, if we hone a used U.S.A. original wheel cylinder - where do we get the rubber parts?  The composition of the rubber is critical to its quality.  Do we get the rubber from China, or from NOS.  If NOS, what about its age. Age also causes the rubber (elastomers) to degrade.  These are just questions I have.  Don't know if there are any good answers.

Rant away my friend, couldn't agree more!! Don't want no metric wrenches touchin my "Diana"!! She's American !!
Rowen

Rowen
55CV
Woodland, Ca

Don't mind at all. Just looking for more info all the time.
As far as rebuilding vs new, my experience lately is that while
new stuff is new, many times the bleeder screws are now metric,
which is a PITA to me, and actually pisses me off no end as to why 
they can't be made correctly.
End of rant
Jim

Tanks fer gettin back to me Rick. Aahhhhh.......retirement......sigh....about 3 more yrs for me....so sum pics of yer F600 project would still interest me. I don't have room or,frankly, the desire for anything that big, but I still think they are WAY kool!! You could PM them or start a new thread rather than hijack Kahuna's. (although don't think he'd mind. Pretty kool dude).
Lookin forward ta seeing it.....Rowen

Rowen
55CV
Woodland, Ca

Howdy Rowen!     Yeah....it's still in pieces all over the shop!   
I have some pictures of that though!     I have been moving very slowly in the last several years because of work and other projects but I am going to retire in the next year or so and things (I hope) will happen pretty fast!





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