Renze
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Yeah, i must have made a typo on the calculator. 376 cubic inch is 6161cc or 6.2 liter.
I thought, the Perkins A6.354 was 5.8 liter, something is off..
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I thought, the Perkins A6.354 was 5.8 liter, something is off..
Too many Kubotas
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How could it get any more metric than 6.1 and 6.2 liters?
That really sums it up. Time for you guys to join the Metric world
Renze
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When even you guys arent sure how many cubic inches your 6.2 is, its time to follow Britains example and ditch their imperial system...
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It is rumored that when Daf trucks Holland (now under Paccar, the MX13 and MX11 are Dutch designs) took over the truck branch of British Leyland in 1987s, they sent the Brits back to the drawing board to convert their new engine which would become the Daf DNT620 to metric, to replace their 615 engine..
The 6BTs and Cat engines i layd a wrench on, had Metric fasteners, and apart from Cummins, all heavy truck engines built in the States today are European designs.
Its safe to say that there are no heavy duty engines in the world that are imperial designs, the US large industry is already Metric. So when hardware stores keep selling imperial and local manufacturers still use it, they are not doing the US consumer a favour, if you ask me.
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masseyrider
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Just a smidge over 61 cubic inches per litre.When even you guys arent sure how many cubic inches your 6.2 is, its time to follow Britains example and ditch their imperial system...
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Too many Kubotas
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Okay, at first I wrote 376 cubes, but later added that it's apparently 376.3. Seems to me that you're the one having trouble here.
Renze
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Yes, i mistyped on the calculator.
But you guys have the problem of requiring two sets of sockets and wrenches, because everything thats built in the US for the world markets is metric, while local manufacturers and hardware stores keep selling imperial fasteners, and machines assembled with them. (Or at least, when i was in Canada in 2005 we still put half inch bolts in grain vac piping in a Great Lakes port, instead of M12 even though gas was already sold per liter)
Here, the only guys that have imperial sockets and wrenches are those restoring classic UK cars from the 60s.
Too many Kubotas
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I still need both kinds for the stuff I'm working on. Heck, even the Unimogs are part SAE fasteners.
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Yeah they could change to what ever standard and I would still need every type to work on the old stuff. Good machines are around a long time.
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Hey Renze, do those evil 12 mm heads and nuts exist in Europe?
My metric tool sets from there have 12 mm wrenches and sockets, but here a metric set didn't use to include that size. And I don't recall ever needing them over there.
Seems that head size started appearing on American vehicles at some point in the 80s or so.
My metric tool sets from there have 12 mm wrenches and sockets, but here a metric set didn't use to include that size. And I don't recall ever needing them over there.
Seems that head size started appearing on American vehicles at some point in the 80s or so.
