Daston Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Hi guys Quick question (borderline technical) I am in the process of cleaning up the manifold heat sheild on my NA as it looked a bit crap to be honest. However a few of the nuts split when I took them off. Anyone know the technical name for these nuts and more importantly where I can get them from??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 No technical name, just walk into your local place and say 'Can I please have some nuts' *grin*... Toyota should be able to tell you which ones you need, in fact someone with an EPC should be able to give you the exact number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Ready salted or dry roasted *grin*.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bromy Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 90179-08101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 That's dry roasted if I'm not mistaken. -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffleman Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 You might not want your opening line at the parts counter to be: 'Hi, I'd like some new nuts - I've split mine' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 a fastening device of the *m12* varaitiy *insert size here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bromy Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 What size spanner did you use? 10mm spanner = M6 nut 13mm spanner = M8 nut more than likely one of them two sizes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 What size spanner did you use? 10mm spanner = M6 nut 13mm spanner = M8 nut more than likely one of them two sizes That's not always true. Far eastern manufacturers seem to like using non-standard hex sizes. Just get the Toyota part. It'll cost pennies and be the right one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeT Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 That's not always true. Far eastern manufacturers seem to like using non-standard hex sizes. Just get the Toyota part. It'll cost pennies and be the right one. I agree, on the supra M8 is more than likely 12mm spanner size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 haha all this from some nuts. Just came back from toyota to order some plastic push plugs for the door trim. A whole 68p each must be the cheapest Toyota part Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 It's rare to find a 13mm hexagon size on a Jap car, for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSZ Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Hi guys Quick question (borderline technical) I am in the process of cleaning up the manifold heat sheild on my NA as it looked a bit crap to be honest. However a few of the nuts split when I took them off. Anyone know the technical name for these nuts and more importantly where I can get them from??? 12mm nuts The far east don't like 13mm as it's unlucky (13!) If you want a chrome heat shield I have one for sale - £30 :) (another colsoop special) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 The proper technical term is testicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSZ Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Here's a few more technical definitions for you all:) HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive car parts not far from the object we are trying to hit. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing convertible tops or tonneau covers. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling rollbar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake line that goes to the rear axle. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VICE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETELENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting those stale garage cigarettes you keep hidden in the back of the Whitworth socket drawer (what wife would think to look in there?) because you can never remember to buy lighter fluid for the Zippo lighter you got from the car boot sale. ZIPPO LIGHTER: See oxyacetelene torch. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for hiding six-month-old Salems from the sort of person who would throw them away for no good reason. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against the Samantha Fox poster over the bench grinder. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar callouses in about the time it takes you to say, "Jeremy Beadle." HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering a Faff to the ground after you have installed a set of TRD lowered road springs, trapping the jack handle firmly under the front air dam. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2x4: Used for levering a car upward off a hydraulic jack. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters. PHONE: Tool for calling your mate to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog crap off your boot. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit. TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease buildup on crankshaft pulleys. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and hydraulic clutch lines you may have forgotten to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle. BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulphuric acid from car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a Dodo, just as you thought. AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw. TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty suspension bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and rounds them off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike M Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 It all rings so true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Amusing, but not even borderline tech now -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 The far east don't like 13mm as it's unlucky (13!) I don't think that's right. Unlucky 13 is a western thing, isn't it? Apparently they don't like the number 4 because the Japanese word for four sounds the same as the word for death. Or summat like that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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