metric tools - kinda dumb question

[JShadzi at aol.com]

Ya, we had an 87 Dodge Caravan with a Mitsu 4 banger in it, man, what a piece 
of crap, 3 engine rebuilds before it finally died for good with less than 
150k miles.

Javadv

In a message dated 12/27/2003 10:01:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, ti at amb.org 
writes:
JShadzi at aol.com writes:
> I think this has more to do with the fact that more and more "American" 
cars 
> are engineered and manufactured by Japanese companies than anything else, 
and 
> now there's Damlier/Christler, etc.

American cars have started using some metric fasteners even in the
1980s.  I had a college beater car, a POS Pontiac Sunbird that had a
mishmash mixture of SAE and metric stuff on it.  It was a royal pain to
work on because you never know whether you're really using the right
sized tool for any job, unless you have the service manual (and even
that is not helpful in many cases).

-Ti