metric or standard....which one would be more comonly found on our car?...and anyone know hwat is common on a dodge carvan..

 

On the TL is metric... Dont know about the dodge...

 

thanx...are our lugnuts metric too?

 

Yup

 

hmm...thtas annoying...do you know if the lugnuts on american cars are standard?....i'm probably gonn have to buy 2 4ways now

 

btw...im going on a shopping spree for tools tomarrow at sears...my house has nothing..not even ducktape....i plan on getting a jack 4 jackstands..a 150 or so peice toolset, 4way wrench/s, torque wrench, pliers....anything else you guys can helo me think of to get?

 

The lug nuts are 19mm, at home I just use a 1/2in drive socket and breaker bar to loosen and tighten them with a torque wrench.

 

njtls: How can anyone not have duct tape?

 

Good question... HAHAHA....

 

dude...i have nothing...my parents are the most un handy people ever...so no toold..the only tooks i have are a small jigsaw and a bench clamp..which i used back in the day for my pinewood derby cars ....oh yeh..which reminds me..i should pick up some masking tape too

 

Sears has great "mechanic" tool kits from 50 pieces to over 400. I got the 125 piece and it's got about everything, in metric & standard. That's a great place to start. I also got a "mini" metric 25 piecer I keep in my car.

You should also get a cordless power-drill for your house. You can use those for just about everything. Happy shopping.... you may max out your CC though

 

Most years of the Cravan came in metric since most (if not all) had Mitsubishi engines. I would still get some SAE tools for around the house (the adjustable wrench is cheating by the way).

 

I was a car audio installer for 15 years and the only sizes of sockets that I ever really needed to pull a car apart were 13mm, 10mm, 7mm, and 1/4" - regardless of whether the car was a US or foreign model. Oh and a few torx tips too. I dont recall offhand for sure right now (its late and i am tired at the moment so my brain is running slow) but i think they were the T20 and T30.

 

most american cars are all metric also., atleast since 1985. every car ive worked on (honda toyota nissan gm chrystler) have all been metric!

 

Funny how rims and tires are still measured in inches. By the way, you can't go wrong with one of those huge 100+ piece sets at Sears. Great way to start your tool collection for not too much $ (now if I could only afford some Snap-Ons).

 

i love my craftsman tools, ive been buying them for 15 years now and love them. there little starter tool sets are the way to go.
http://www.sears.com/sr/search/resul...rchresults.jsp

 

Well, that's only partly true. The rims are measured in inches still but the tire sizes (other than the last number) for passenger cars are in metric. There was even an extreme case of a tire called a P-Metric. A few Fords used them amongst others. A buddy of mine had one and couldn't find tires for it anywhere.

You guys may be a little young to remember the old-fangled sizes such as G60-14 (my 71' Roadrunner) or F70-15 etc. Now those sizes were confusing!

 

Rhino stands
2 ton jack
oil filter wrench
5 quarts of Mobil 1 (dont know if sears carries them)
10 mm wrench - this is the most common bolt in our TLs
spark plug wrench
set of screwdrivers (std and phillips)
if you can get craftsman on it all the better the craftsman comes with a lifetime warranty

 

Dont forget to get a impact gun and a air compressor and install a nice lift in your garage and you wont have to mess with the jack stands n floor jack.....If you think this is extreme ... well i know someone who has this whole set up along with snap on tools in his home garage......ahh i should have stayed in school longer

 

ive got all that except for the lift! if the garage celing was higher i just might have that too. oh im running craftsman instead of snap on

 

actually i was looking at an aircompressor..that sh*t is so cool...also...i want to get a lift later on...i think chassis lifts can go outside..so i'll stick it in ym backyard...i plan on haveing another garage door installed at the back of my garage so i can drive straight through my garage and into the back yard...and if my town lets me..im gona build a second garage back there....anyway this is waht i got so far.elt me know waht im missing..the sale ends today!

3ton jack
4 3ton jackstands
4way
torque wrench
creeper
zipties
electrical tape
254 peice tool set (btw...its a 100$ off plus another 10% off...go get it! i think the oringinal price was 319...so its under 200 before taxes...oh and it comes in its own 4 drawer cabinet/case thing)

 

A Shop-Vac is also a good investment. Not the Carftsman brand because they use all sorts of different sized filters. The Shop-Vac brand only uses one number filter. I bought a 12 gallon a couple of years ago and it has proven to be very handy. Just think, you can vac out the hot rod and not have to go to the car wash to feed the machine quarters and worry when it's gonna stop on ya.